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Old 22-08-2013, 03:10 PM   #8
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Question:

Why do i get a initial high ammonia reading after using hydra filter or hydra stream?


Answer:

Ammonia and ammonium are always in a balanced chemical equation. The charged(ionized) form (ammonium NH4+) is much less toxic to all fishes, and in the uncharged(un-ionized) form(NH3), it is highly toxic. The reason why you see a much higher ammonia reading is because all the common test kit will not be able to differentiate between the two forms.

The fundamental working theory behind these test kits are the ability to bind the Nitrogen molecules in the water and produce a color difference and the binding ability of the test kit’s chemical is dependent largely on which form the ammonia is in.

If the ammonia is in the un-ionized form, the bond between the Nitrogen and Hydrogen molecule is very stable and the bond will not break and thus, it will not be able to give an accurate (lower) reading (i.e. there will still be a lot of nitrogen molecules not being “read” by the test kit). As the unionized form of ammonia is converted to the much less toxic ionized form of ammonia by HYDRA, the test kit will be give a higher reading as the bond between the nitrogen and hydrogen molecule in the ammonium is less stable and easier to break to combine with the test kit’s chemical.

That is the reason why the reading is higher, but as you can see, the fishes are not dying! In any normal circumstances, such high ammonia reading would have kill all your fishes (marine or freshwater ) and corals(marine) but HYDRA converts all these toxic substances (actually it detoxifies many other nutrients in the water that pose a threat to your fish survival) to a much less toxic forms and most importantly, these ionized forms of nutrients are taken up by beneficial bacteria and plants at a much faster and efficient rate!

For those who wants to test out the HYDRA further, you can run a control tank without HYDRA, you will see the wonders that HYDRA do!!
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