Nature's Parameters

Anyone ever test water in nature?

As I was hunting for scuds in a neglected pond that had fish, turtles, and trash in it, I randomly tested the water. It was zero Nitrite, 30 Nitrate. Soft water with very low PH.

interesting.

 

Interesting. I’ve often thought I’d doing that for fun but haven’t yet. I assume you meant zero nitrites? How about ammonia? I would think zero there as well.

 

Interesting. I’ve often thought I’d doing that for fun but haven’t yet. I assume you meant zero nitrites? How about ammonia? I would think zero there as well.

yea I had it backwards. And I didn't test ammonia. It was those 5 in one tetra strips.

I assume zero ammonia because Nitrites were zero

 

I tested my local pond, the water is murky and green, but there was no ammonia, nitrites, or nitrates at all.

 

Huh. Interesting. Now I’m going to go home and test the stream in my yard

 

I tested my local pond, the water is murky and green, but there was no ammonia, nitrites, or nitrates at all.

Could be still cycling

 

Anyone ever test water in nature?

As I was hunting for scuds in a neglected pond that had fish, turtles, and trash in it, I randomly tested the water. It was zero Nitrite, 30 Nitrate. Soft water with very low PH.

interesting.

It would be interesting to test the stream water going into that pond and compare.