Aquarium Tetra Test Strips Review

Aquarium Test Strips Review vs Liquid Results. Here are the exact strips I’m talking about. I use these on a daily basis and love them.

I really do love my aquarium test strips. This is my review on them vs liquid results. If you don’t have plants, you might could invest in them. Plants absorb some nitrates and use it to grow. But other than water changes, there’s not much else to do since it’s a product of bacteria consuming the ammonia in the tank. Well water conditioner won't remove nitrates. Water conditioner only removes chlorine and detox heavy metals unless you use prime in which it would detox ammonia and nitrites as well. Some tap water will contain nitrates, if that's the case you'd need add something to your tank to remove nitrates such as live plants, especially stem plants.

Don't do water change your PH will be high & make ammonia toxic add carbon & ammonia gone to the filler & make PH under 7 with sodium biphosphate slowly. Wahhhhh? Why would a water change affect the ph? I run a ph of 8 for my Africans and have no issue with ammonia. A stable ph is the most important not adding chemicals to fluctuate it. Test tap water for all tests and work from that.

I breed discus not same as african are easy to keep tap water will have a higher PH they add it to stop pipes form being damaged I also breed crystal shrimp don't listen to african keeper's for water parameters. If you have a planted tank and nitrates stay high it could be due to nitrates being present in your tap water. In which a filter media to remove nitrates may come in handy.

I wouldn't mess with ph. Fish will adjust accordingly. If it's way too high which according to the photo I would do a high ph test to get an exact number I would add drift wood, or Pete moss to slowly drop ph over an extended time. Never make huge changes to ph quickly.

I would add more plants, but that's just me I like heavily planted tanks. I would do at least a 25 percent water change up to 50 percent to get those nitrates down. I do want to add more. I just wanted to see how it would go with these. I had put some in before but had no success with them. I finally got the understanding of how to maintain them. So I’ll just do the water changes and add the prime and water conditioner?

HALP. I need expert advice. One of my swordtails has went completely blind (cloud eye). We had been doing the water changes and monitoring the water. It wasn't working so finally we used the API fungal treatment that also treats cloudy eyes. Started the treatment 4 days ago. The past week he's been laying on the floor of the tank and only comes up when it's time to eat.

And we were checking him out today and he has these tiny white dots all over his body. I thought they were tiny air bubbles at first, but they're not. What do I do? It's a community tank, and im worried about him infecting the other fish. I don't have another tank he can go in quite yet (it's in the cycling process). If I take him out what do I do with

[arthurengelbert]

I use the Tetra 6 In 1 test strips, with the Tetra App on my phone. You can dip the strip in the water, immediately remove it and the app starts a 30-sec countdown. Once the timer expires, the app switches to your camera mode and displays a grid. You line up the strip to the grid, and snap a pic. The app then displays the results in a easy to read colored format. Then, tells you how to correct the problem areas. This is a great way for novice fish-keeper like myself, to read water quality, & how to correct any issues. My one complaint however with the app is, it's nearly impossible to line up the strip with the app's grid & take a pic. The app does it automatically, but it keeps Going in and out of focus, & takes a few frustrating attempts before connecting with an acceptable attempt.

[zfixation]

I use tetra test strips in conjunction with API liquid kits, the Tetra 5 in 1 and 6 in 1 work fine, but the tetra Ammonia strips are super hard to read because they tend to be blotchy and not uniform in color.

Outside of that, the real culprit for test strips getting a bad wrap are the API test strips, based off of tests people have done they aren't very accurate.

[deedeedamnit]

well they're good enough for cory at aquarium co op so that makes rhem good enough for me 😀. and when you have multiple tanks they really are a time saver!

[watermelonlalala]

Test some tap water that has been sitting there against your tank water that has been there the same time but with a fish in it and see if you get any difference. I didn't. Tetra 5 in1 Easy Strips. Bought at Petco a couple of weeks ago. Not exposed to unusual conditions

[sweetscience]

The back of bottle says compare immediately. When I do it shows 0 ammonia. But after I let it sit for a while (like 5 minutes or more) it shows 3 ppm! So which is it!!?