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    Default Seachem Alert to monitor NH3 and pH?

    So finally I have the time to dedicate to discus once again, and figured out a better way for me to do water changes. I lost my last batch to funky water during a water change. So this time I want to keep some testing inside the tank. Has anyone used the Seachem Alert badges in the tank? I am not looking at them to get accurate pH or ammonia readings, but just to monitor change. Are these any good?
    For accurate readings I will still end up using the test kits.
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    Default Re: Seachem Alert to monitor NH3 and pH?

    Forget it, research shows not quick enough for my use case.
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    Default Re: Seachem Alert to monitor NH3 and pH?

    I think the ammonia alert is excellent, especially that it only detects harmful NH3. The pH alert's colors make it difficult to read and not as useful IME

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    Default Re: Seachem Alert to monitor NH3 and pH?

    I tried one of the ammonia allerts in one of my tanks but difficult to tell how useful it is as the ammonia is always undetectable in all of my tanks. I would anyway expect that a reasonably cycled tank would cope quite easily with a reasonable increase of the ammonia concentration. The resulting nitrites may be a bit more of a problem (the second set of useful bacteria multiply even slower).

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