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Nitrate test - what does this mean?

#1 User is offline   chriss 

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Posted 19 May 2010 - 06:31 PM

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Kit was opened in sept 09 expires 05/2011.

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Posted 19 May 2010 - 06:31 PM

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Kit was opened in sept 09 expires 05/2011.

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Posted 19 May 2010 - 06:31 PM

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Kit was opened in sept 09 expires 05/2011.

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Posted 19 May 2010 - 06:40 PM

zero nitrates and lots of phytoplankton????????????????? :D :D :D
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 06:45 PM

Easy,nitrates are over a 1000 :D .
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 06:46 PM

Easy nitrates over a 1000 :D .
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 06:47 PM

Could be nitrates over a 1000 :D .
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 07:43 PM

Its not St Patricks day again is it :D

The expiry date is only any use if the contents of the kit have not been exposed to air, after that its anybodies guess how long it will last!!!

Looks like you will have to spend some more money, he,he,he :D

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Tankless at the moment :-(

Hopefully not long to wait
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 07:59 PM

Whoa tripple post dude!

Marcus, I also did a bucket test, cos I think my nutrients have crept up in the last few weeks, and it was definitely a greener that it was before the resumping so the phyto suggestion maynot be so strange.....

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(See Trev, your not the only one)

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Posted 19 May 2010 - 08:05 PM

View Postchriss, on May 19 2010, 08:59 PM, said:

Whoa tripple post dude!

Marcus, I also did a bucket test, cos I think my nutrients have crept up in the last few weeks, and it was definitely a greener that it was before the resumping so the phyto suggestion maynot be so strange.....

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(See Trev, your not the only one)

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Chris u been on the creme de menthe again or i suggest u see a doctor :D :D :D
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 08:26 PM

More buckets of water :D
TANK 48 x 24 x 24

NO LIVE ROCK WHATSOEVER

VORTECH MP40
2 x Tunze Nano

48 x 18 x 17.5 SUMP
NO LIVE ROCK IN HERE EITHER!
SCHURAN JETSKIM 150
SCHURAN JETSTREAM 1 Ca REACTOR
"GYRACTOR" running "BIO PEARLS"
EHEIM 1262 RETURN PUMP

FISH AND CORALS SUPPLIED BY
JASON's AQUATICS
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 08:28 PM

seeing the bucket i think its quite likely that you are close to zero and its a background green -- the cheato that disolved in the sump into microscopic little bits of green stuff ? - thats about the least scientific answer in the history of IR haha ( oh and its actually because your reading is well over 1000) ! :D
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 09:41 PM

Hi Chris, could be a faulty test kit I bought a new one and had exactly the same as your pics but was certain that I had Nitrate above 10, took it in to Linds and we tested it on the fish system still zero :D so i binned it and got another new one which read 20 :D
Cant remember the exp date think it was 2011 sometime
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 09:48 PM

Looks like another trip to jasons. I thought I might get away with two visits this week, oh well.

Thanks for the replies guys.

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Posted 22 May 2010 - 08:30 AM

Sold that test kit 50 times now :) .
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