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4 guides.
The API Freshwater Master Test Kit is still the kit to beat for freshwater tanks. Here is what each of its five tests measures, how to run them correctly, and its limits.
Seachem Prime is the water conditioner we would buy: 5 mL treats 50 gallons, it handles chloramine, and Seachem states exactly what its ammonia binding does and does not do.
API's Freshwater Master Test Kit is the one we would buy: ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and two pH ranges, over 800 tests. Here is when strips are enough and what reef tanks need.
Cycling grows the bacteria that turn fish waste into nitrate. Here is the fishless method, the fish-in method, what to test every other day, and the reading that says the tank is ready.
