I am new here and have a few qusetions and i should also announce i am also a newbie to marine tanks. Have had one in the past but i am still new.
I recently set up my 75g with about 35#base rock and 20# of uncured live rock for my cycle well did all the test religously and and kept showing up with high nitrates even though ammonia and nitrites were barely visible. Checked my tap water and thought it had nitrates in it so i got a filtration unit still showed nitrates. The test kit was a tetra test kit. So i had an older marine enterprises kit and it showed nothing,well today i bought a hagen test kit and it as well shows nothing. Just wandering if anyone else has had a problem with the tetra test kit or are they usually a good kit. :?:
I recently set up my 75g with about 35#base rock and 20# of uncured live rock for my cycle well did all the test religously and and kept showing up with high nitrates even though ammonia and nitrites were barely visible. Checked my tap water and thought it had nitrates in it so i got a filtration unit still showed nitrates. The test kit was a tetra test kit. So i had an older marine enterprises kit and it showed nothing,well today i bought a hagen test kit and it as well shows nothing. Just wandering if anyone else has had a problem with the tetra test kit or are they usually a good kit. :?:
