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The long and skinny of my issue is that I have something leaching from the sand I use as my substrate that is causing an alarmingly high false reading using a salicylate based ammonia test kit (API specifically, but any test using this chemistry will most likely provide the same results). I...

I've just inherited a 55-gallon aquarium and XP3 canister filter from a friend when he moved out of state. He moved his stock with him, so it's currently housing live plants, but no fish. The filter was certainly working when he left, but I've just replaced the filter media to get ready to...