OP
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KISSfn
Fish Herder
Additional response from Seneye:
Sorry for my delay we have had a massive spam attack in the last few days it's been a real pain !
I have set up a few experiments. (BTW Seachem are wrong seneye measure NH3 only).
One thing that seems very apparent is that the pH goes up if the dose is x high.
PH changes effect NH3 levels; as NH3 / NH4 form an equilibrium at any pH.
The basic relationship is NH3 to NH4 goes up at 10 x with every 1 pH change (i.e. 0.01 becomes 0.1), it follows the same logarithmic scale as pH.
Usually pH drops in an aquarium overtime as does KH which means lazy fish keepers can be affected more than good ones.
This is what makes NH3 so dangerous, you can have a healthy old aquarium (that's had little maintenance) and then you clean it doing a water change with fresh water which is usually at a higher pH / KH and suddenly NH3 goes up, leading to mysterious fish deaths.
If you have an old slide or next time you change a slide put it in some solution with prime at much higher that recommended levels and leave it.
The NH3 pad reacts in micro seconds, but the pH is a slower if left you will see the pH pad go from yellowish to greenish you will see this by eye it's that strong. This indicates a + change in pH.
Personally I always minimise on chemicals as the seneye allows for a more natural approach.
As of yet, and if my hypothesis is right, I'm not sure why the NH3 is not lowered immediately by the additives.
I will let you know when I do, this does help answer some of the enigma!?
Kind regards
Matt
seneye
Ps seachem are really good guys, I have a lot of time for them
Sorry for my delay we have had a massive spam attack in the last few days it's been a real pain !
I have set up a few experiments. (BTW Seachem are wrong seneye measure NH3 only).
One thing that seems very apparent is that the pH goes up if the dose is x high.
PH changes effect NH3 levels; as NH3 / NH4 form an equilibrium at any pH.
The basic relationship is NH3 to NH4 goes up at 10 x with every 1 pH change (i.e. 0.01 becomes 0.1), it follows the same logarithmic scale as pH.
Usually pH drops in an aquarium overtime as does KH which means lazy fish keepers can be affected more than good ones.
This is what makes NH3 so dangerous, you can have a healthy old aquarium (that's had little maintenance) and then you clean it doing a water change with fresh water which is usually at a higher pH / KH and suddenly NH3 goes up, leading to mysterious fish deaths.
If you have an old slide or next time you change a slide put it in some solution with prime at much higher that recommended levels and leave it.
The NH3 pad reacts in micro seconds, but the pH is a slower if left you will see the pH pad go from yellowish to greenish you will see this by eye it's that strong. This indicates a + change in pH.
Personally I always minimise on chemicals as the seneye allows for a more natural approach.
As of yet, and if my hypothesis is right, I'm not sure why the NH3 is not lowered immediately by the additives.
I will let you know when I do, this does help answer some of the enigma!?
Kind regards
Matt
seneye
Ps seachem are really good guys, I have a lot of time for them
