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I'm confused (it's late) so you're saying your nitrates are off the scale? And in dark purple on a Red Sea pro kit?Got a new test kit today the Red Sea Pro Nitrate and my nitrates are off the chart! I did 3 tests couldn't even figure how high the nitrate is. All I know is that something is not right. I have a regular Red Sea kit that ran out and at most I got just a very faint color change after testing yesterday from dosing spectracide the first time. I figured the old test kit test could have been expired maybe bad liquid, but I never had any issues of chemistry with my tank since I have been using it. My nitrates always tested low or did not register even when I brought water to the fish store to be tested. They used API tests kits.
Is is possible that I did something wrong with the procedure? I read that the new RSP test kits have powder now instead of liquid so I don't have anything else to really compare it to other than doing a search on this brand and how some have had problems with their test kits. Hope that not mine. The expiration date on the kit is 5-16 so it should be good. I'll have to go to the fish store tomorrow and have them test my water to see what they come up with.
As for my corals, they looked better today like their coming back. My zoa frag was closed for a week and its seems it wants to open now. Fish are fine, I don't have algae..Only thing I did was dose last night for the first time 100ml of solution (mixed 1tlbsp to 1-litre of water) and this morning after testing using the old RedSea kit I dosed again the same amount as the test showed no color change.
Are you doing anything to try and balance things out? For instance I started cutting back on my macro algae. For two weeks I was dosing every other day. Cutting back the cheato for a total of three time and ended up with a 1/3 of what I had. Around this time my nitrates started to stabilize to where I haven't dosed now for 4 days. Not sure yet on it I've reached a balance or not as I am still testing every other day.
Yes, the test turns out a dark purple and I also did a high range test which turns out very dark pink..more so than the scale..Judging by the numbers on the scale from the test, I have to assume that I am above the 64ppm for nitrates.
I'm heading to the LFS today with water and have them run a test to see.
Exactly...hopefully I didn't screw things up. So far things look good if not a bit better and no algae or presents of any. Phosphates test
just a trace.