That's what they say, but remember I was getting NO3 readings over 100ppm? I'm guessing that had to be interference. Or I'm just REALLY a statistical anomaly.
Just another story about statistical anomalies though. I've never had a peppermint in 10 years in the hobby eat a single aiptasia. I've been through dozens of peppermints through the years. I always read stuff like "Hoo yeah my peppermints cleared my tank of aiptasia in half an hour!" Anyhow with the recent thread about the peppermints from Gold's eating aiptasia with at least two testimonials from people, I went and bought 2 and put them in my 110 (which already has a pair, so now 4 peppermints). I should point out that the tank has all of 3 aiptasias. If the peppermints would just eat the 3, they'd have my glowing admiration forever. This morning? I found a peppermint molt being chowed down by one of the aiptasias.
Still waiting to see evidence of these stupid shrimp ever eating aiptasias. I think it's just far more likely everyone else who claims they eat them is just in on the joke at my expense.
Getting back on topic though, I wonder if the difference is that I never ran my denitrator on a static body of water like you've done. Ie., I'm running mine on a live system that is producing nitrates every day, whereas cycling it on a bucket will start off with the nitrates at one level, and then only decrease as they get used up. So in that scenario all you have is a consumer, whereas I have a producer and a consumer and trying to adjust one variable while having another variable out of your control makes it just that much harder to get that viable trend showing. I'm sure there's an explanation. At the very least I know that the numbers seem to be slowly decreasing but I'll still just be happy to see it hit zero, if and when that ever happens.
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Originally Posted by Psyire
I thought the interference was isolated to the Nitrite test? I never did test for Nitrites, only Nitrates.
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