Excellent experiment. I believe the chlorine from bottle #2 has reacted with all the ammonia in the water forming chloramine. Could you please post a link as to where you found out the ingredients of bottle 1&2. Thanks.
hi - thanks for the comments. here's the links apifishcare.com/pdfs/products-us/ammonia-test-kit/api-ammonia-test-kit-solution-1-safety-data-sheet.pdf apifishcare.com/pdfs/products-us/ammonia-test-kit/api-ammonia-test-kit-solution-2-safety-data-sheet.pdf
@@thekoilab3944 Thank you! Would you know a way for low ammonia reading colour to stand out more on the API? I tried using half the sample water (2.5ml) with the same amount of drops (8drops of each reagent). But a sample containing .02 ammonia-nitrogen on my Hanna checker is still the same colour as distilled water using this method. I hope I’m making myself clear. The idea is to make the API test kit more sensitive to low ammonia reading. Thanks.
I doubt adding more reagent would generally help as the reagent should be in excess in order for the test to differentiate between different levels of ammonia. I’d suggest a way of detecting finer levels is to view a longer cross section of solution. For instance using a 10ml test tube with twice as much test water and reagents and view from above directly down through the tube over a white worktop. In order for this to work you’d also need to calibrate the colours you are looking for by diluting a known amount of ammonia down and testing along side for colour comparison.
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Excellent experiment. I believe the chlorine from bottle #2 has reacted with all the ammonia in the water forming chloramine. Could you please post a link as to where you found out the ingredients of bottle 1&2. Thanks.
hi - thanks for the comments. here's the links
apifishcare.com/pdfs/products-us/ammonia-test-kit/api-ammonia-test-kit-solution-1-safety-data-sheet.pdf
apifishcare.com/pdfs/products-us/ammonia-test-kit/api-ammonia-test-kit-solution-2-safety-data-sheet.pdf
@@thekoilab3944 Thank you! Would you know a way for low ammonia reading colour to stand out more on the API? I tried using half the sample water (2.5ml) with the same amount of drops (8drops of each reagent). But a sample containing .02 ammonia-nitrogen on my Hanna checker is still the same colour as distilled water using this method. I hope I’m making myself clear. The idea is to make the API test kit more sensitive to low ammonia reading. Thanks.
I doubt adding more reagent would generally help as the reagent should be in excess in order for the test to differentiate between different levels of ammonia. I’d suggest a way of detecting finer levels is to view a longer cross section of solution. For instance using a 10ml test tube with twice as much test water and reagents and view from above directly down through the tube over a white worktop. In order for this to work you’d also need to calibrate the colours you are looking for by diluting a known amount of ammonia down and testing along side for colour comparison.
Awesome I idea sir. I have a 10ml test tube. This is what I will try next time a get an ammonia reading on my hanna checker. Thanks.
hello sir
how much k1 i need to put in 1000 liter pond ( by kg please)