I know I'm not color blind. Does anybody else have a difficulty figuring out what ammonia levels are at? I bought the master test kit when I was suggested to do so by the helpful fellers on this forum. It's pretty easy for everything but bad ammonia levels. When my levels are (super unfortunately) too high in ammonia, I cannot tell what it's really at. I believe it says look at it under the light with the 5ml tube in the white section of the 'reader card,' I'll call it. It looks green to me. Doesn't look dark green, doesn't look puke lime green. It doesn't really look like any of the greens on the card. It doesn't matter that much at this point because of the fact that I've accepted that ammonia levels are too high, and I've been doing 30-50% water changes every day for about a week now....more to come when i post my please somebody help my, new to planted tanks 20gal post coming soon. So anyways, can somebody give me a suggestion on reading these kits better? I can't tell if my ammonia levels are even going down because green to me it just looks green but not a specifically horrible or not as horrible green. When I look at it in light it looks bright green and when i look at it in lower light it looks light green. Either way I'm F'd and I've done F'd up again in fishkeeping (see posts 2 years ago when i first started in fish and I overstocked my tank unknowingly and so many epic failures amounted from my first try at keeping fish.
Okay so, in this post let us maybe keep it to, how do you tell what the test kit is really telling you? Sound good?
Otherwise, may I please ask where a self proclaimed newbie to planted aquariums should post their issues, I have details of every single day for two weeks of my first planted tank including fish, lighting, nutrients, growth, lack of growth, and btw, in the past two weeks, even with good water changes every day my nitrates and nitrites are 0 and my ammonia keeps running high. This is why I think I should post the rest of my issues in planted tanks or...somewhere.
Glad to be back to be back to this forum, it helped me in the past and now that I'm back into aquariums hopefully it can help me again.
Okay so, in this post let us maybe keep it to, how do you tell what the test kit is really telling you? Sound good?
Otherwise, may I please ask where a self proclaimed newbie to planted aquariums should post their issues, I have details of every single day for two weeks of my first planted tank including fish, lighting, nutrients, growth, lack of growth, and btw, in the past two weeks, even with good water changes every day my nitrates and nitrites are 0 and my ammonia keeps running high. This is why I think I should post the rest of my issues in planted tanks or...somewhere.
Glad to be back to be back to this forum, it helped me in the past and now that I'm back into aquariums hopefully it can help me again.