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Aquarium Salt - Does It Affect Water Test Results?

sadguppy

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I recently bought an API ammonia test and it came with a colour chart for both freshwater and salt water. The salt water test at 0 is a similar colour to the freshwater 0.25 level... So does this mean that the addition of aquarium salt in smaller quantities could affect the colour of the test??

I have two tanks, one of which has perfect stats and the other never goes properly yellow. If I didn't know better I would think it was 0 but compared to the other one you can see there is trace ammonia. It had aquarium salt in it - could this be the reason?
 
Any ideas? Has anyone had a similar result? No fish seem affected and the level does not increase at all.
 

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