How Do You Get Rid Of Ammonia?

[K-Holed]

Sorry I'll clarify. It is suggested that ammonia is kept below 0.25mg/l. This is the lowest amount that the API ammonia test kit can show (I'm unsure what this is on the Interpet chart). But the upshot of this is, if you are registering anything other thas zero ammonia, you need to do water changes, until your reading is zero (this may not be truly zero, but it's as close as your test will show you).

Kind regards

Jimi

 

[Bignose]

Sorry I'll clarify. It is suggested that ammonia is kept below 0.25mg/l. This is the lowest amount that the API ammonia test kit can show (I'm unsure what this is on the Interpet chart). But the upshot of this is, if you are registering anything other thas zero ammonia, you need to do water changes, until your reading is zero (this may not be truly zero, but it's as close as your test will show you).

Kind regards

Jimi

K-H, please see my link originally posted above ( http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/154313-of-toxic-ammonia-charts ). You cannot just give a single value that ammonia should be below. The dangerous level of ammonia is a function of both temperature and pH. 0.25 mg/L of ammonia may be perfectly safe in one set of conditions, and very dangerous in another.

 

[K-Holed]

I won't disagree with the science. The number I gave was merely the one that is quoted everywhere on this forum and I'll freely admit that as I saw it, it was a number derived from the lowest measurable ammonia reading on the API master test kit. If this is not the case (and is merely coincidence) and there is another reason this exact number is constantly refered to, then I'll bow down to that one. Regardless of what the exact concentration of ammonia that presents a threat, under a given set of circumstances, I still hold by my statement that, imo, I'd be doing a water change if I had any measurable ammount of ammonia in my system.