API AMMONIA 130-Test Freshwater and Saltwater Aquarium Water Test Kit

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Water pH is an essential component of your aquarium’s water quality and influences all living animals in your system. For testing pH, you can use a liquid test kit or an electronic probe. Electronic probes can be more accurate if calibrated properly but are more expensive than their liquid counterparts. Due to this, we recommend using the API pH Test Kit. It comes with a testing vial, testing solution, color card, and a glass vial with a snap-tight cap to prevent messes. The entire kit can be used for around 250 tests and accurately tests pH within a 6.0 to 7.6 range. This is ideal for freshwater tanks, so if you have a saltwater tank (or a freshwater tank with a higher optimal pH range), you will need to look for another product, like the API High Range pH Test Kit. Analytics and Sample Preparation > Test Kits and Photometric Methods > Base Parameters from A to Z > Ammonium

Large pallet items like aquariums are deemed delivered successfully with no damage once the the driver has left the property. If a report of damage is submitted after the driver has left we may be unable to assist with replacements. We recommend refusing a damaged delivery, this is the fastest resolution. Total ammonia is the sum of both NH 3 (ammonia, the un-ionised form) and NH 4 + (ammonium, the ionised form). Total ammonia is what is measured analytically in water. Ammonia toxicity is influenced by pH and temperature, whereby an increase in either will convert more NH 4 + to NH 3, thereby increasing toxicity.Analytics and Sample Preparation > Test Kits and Photometric Methods > Areas of Application > Waste Water > Ammonium If any buffer used in the experiment has ammonium salt (e.g. NH4Cl), the buffer must be used to assay how much ammonium is in it. This number can be subtracted from the cells + buffer number to know how much ammonium is in the cells. Publishing research using ab83360? Please let us know so that we can cite the reference in this datasheet.

When the pH is low, the reaction is driven to the right, and when the pH is high, the reaction is driven to the left. In general, at around room temperature, at a pH less than 6.0, the proportion of ammonium-N plus ammonia-N as NH3 is very-very low and as NH4+ is very-very high. At a pH around 8.0 (the assay buffer pH), the proportion as NH3 is 10 percent or less. Laboratory methods measure ammonium-N plus ammonia-N. It is very difficult to directly determine the activity of aqueous ammonia, so instead the surrogate of ammonium-N plus ammonia-N is used. Our test kits measure the strength or weakness of a chemical presence according to the degree of colour saturation. Ie – if it is pale in colour, then the chemical concentration is low. If the colour is strong, then the chemical concentration is high. Simply add the reagent to the compound to be tested and match the colour gained against a colour chart included in the kit.This is our most popular ammonia assay kit; ammonia assay kit ab102509 uses an alternative non-enzymatic method. References:1 - Xu S et al 2019, Spinelli JB et al 2017, Trempolec N et al 2017;2 - Jin L et al 2018; 3 - Wilson et al 2018;4 - Khoja S et al 2018, Cantero et al 2016;5 - Gutierrez-de-Jua V et al 2017; 6 - Shen et al 2016;7 - Fyson et al 2017;8 - Li et al 2016 Analytics and Sample Preparation > Test Kits and Photometric Methods > Areas of Application > Beverages > Ammonium Reference: ASTM D 1426-08, Ammonia Nitrogen in Water, Test Method A. APHA Standard Methods, 18th ed., Method 4500-NH3 C – 1988.