why no ammonia readings?

DarkSoul

DarkSoul

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Mar 12, 2007
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I just got my replacement test kit today from Red Sea. The Red Sea fresh lab deluxe.

it was determined that my other one was bad, and the company happily shipped me out another.

So I test my aquarium water today, my tank has been "setup" since the 1st of june, and I lost all of my fish due to ammonia poisoning (not doing water changes in an uncycled tank, because my test kit was telling me that there was no ammonia)

By now, there should be SOMETHING, ammonia for sure, nitrites maybe, not likely nitrates.

so i do a test today, and they all turn up 0.... this is after skipping a WC yesterday.

wth is going on?
 
hate to say it, but I would suspect something toxic off the background.
 
snails are left.

the fish were fine, perfectly fine, until i decided to leave the tank for 4 days without a water change.

at that point the fish started becoming listless, unable to control their swimming, and which direction they swam, their gills were red an inflammed, and they were breathing heavy.

they didnt all die at the same time.i lost them over a couple of days

I had one danio left until he got stuck under my castle and died from god knows what.

this was a sad saga, but i still dont think it was the BG... those symptoms look like ammo poisoning to me... but I could be wrong, im not scared to admit it :)
 
sorry for your troubles :(

If the tank was set up when you got the new test kit and it showed 0 for ammonia, I would unfortunately also suspect the background - either that or you got another bad test kit, which seems unlikely.

The symptoms you describe would cover ammonia poisoning for sure, but also general toxicity/poisioning from something else.
 
Why not take a sample to your LFS and have them test your params as well. The chances of both test kits being bad are slim to none. If LFS comes back 0 ammonia sounds like background...
 
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