Ammonia and PH fixed!

[jjohnson3]

As the title says, my test kit was wrong! Ph was at 8.4 and Ammonia was at 0 the whole time! i decided to pick up a Red Sea test kit for saltwater. I performed a test with the Red Sea test kit and the API test kit. Heres what I got.

 

PH

 

API-8.1

RS-8.4

 

Ammonia

 

API-.25

RS-0

 

I bought the API test kit last year. Could this have been the cause of it misreading? Thanks for any replies!

[vangvace]

Possibly the API kit expired. iirc API test kits have an expiration date. Propagator talked about it awhile back.

[bdare]

I would definitely not trust the Red Sea kit over the API...

[davidr2340]

I would definitely not trust the Red Sea kit over the API...

Agreed!

[jamesnmandy]

my API ammonia kit has never read zero, not even on water i know is zero....it always had a slight green tint to it, never pure yellow like the card says is zero, but i have also taken my water to the LFS and had them check using their kit, hagen i think, and it's always zero, also the nitrite API kit always has a trace reading, but with every other kit it reads zero.....so when using my API kit as long as it doesn't get over the lowest detectable level i dont worry, because they are off, actually worse than my old red sea kit....i know people will tell you API>Red Sea, but i dont know, i would say it's about a wash