Seachem Ammonia Alert

Seachem Ammonia Alert

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Provides a constant visual reading for toxic ammonia.

 

Uses:  Ammonia Alert™ is a great aid for novice and veteran aquarists alike.  It provides a constant visual reading of toxic ammonia, the number one killer of aquatic animals in an aquarium setting.  Having this product provides peace of mind and enables faster reactions to ammonia spikes, which are a serious emergency for your aquarium that must be dealt with immediately. Consider using with our other Seachem products!

 

From the manufacturer:  Ammonia Alert™ is an innovative color device for continuously detecting and monitoring toxic-free ammonia.  A sensor changes reversibly from yellow to green to blue, relative to the ammonia concentration. No test kits, chemicals, or procedures are needed.  The device detects less than 0.05 mg/L (ppm) free ammonia and alerts you to the #1 killer before any sign of stress. It lasts over a year.  Marine or freshwater use.

In the absence of free ammonia the unit will assume a yellow or faint yellow-green color.  It is normal for the dry sensor to have a greenish hue.  It may take up to a few days for a dry sensor to equilibrate with the water.  No sampling of water, chemicals, or test procedures are required.  The presence of the free ammonia is detectable continuously with a response time of about 15 minutes.  Response to decreasing ammonia is slower, requiring about 4 hours to go from TOXIC to SAFE on removal of ammonia.

 

Directions from the manufacturer: As little as 0.02 mg/L of free ammonia will produce a greenish hue on the detector surface.  This corresponds to a total ammonia (both ionized and free ammonia) of 0.25 mg/L in marine water at pH 8.3.  In freshwater at pH 7.0, this corresponds to 3.6 mg/L total ammonia.  Free ammonia is much more toxic than ionized ammonia.  As free ammonia, the ALERT color corresponds to about 0.05 mg/L, ALARM to about 0.2 mg/L, and TOXIC to about 0.5 mg/L.  The ALERT concentration is tolerated for several days, ALARM for a few days, and TOXIC is rapidly harmful.  This product is not recommended for use at acid pH.

 

Care information from the manufacturer: No care is required beyond removing algae with a clean, soft material.  Avoid touching the sensor with fingers, since skin oils can damage it.  Do not use bleach, soap, detergents or hard objects to clean the sensor.  Some dye medications may discolor the sensor.  Sensitivity improves with age, provided the unit is not allowed to dry out, however, drying does not permanently impair the unit.  For maximum sensitivity, the unit should be read under natural daylight or daylight simulating light.  Red enhancing light minimizes green and blue hues, decreasing the apparent sensitivity of the unit.  The response of the unit may be checked by holding it briefly over the mouth of an ammonia bottle: color should develop rapidly.

For the safety of our animals, we only ship live fish, crabs, and select other inverts exclusively via UPS 1 Day Air.  If your order contains this item, you will only see UPS 1 Day Air as a shipping option during checkout. If other items are in your cart that can ship with  2 day or standard shipping options the only shipping method you can still select is UPS 1 Day Air. 

UPS 1 Day is a description of the duration of time a shipment will spend in transit once it has been shipped. This does not guarantee the package will be shipped the same or next day from which the order was placed.

Shipping Schedule for this service

UPS 1 Day: Monday through Thursday
 

Current Handling Time:

1-9 business days

Here at Aquatic Arts, we consider the welfare of the live animals we are shipping to be of the foremost importance. This process is much more involved than simply creating a shipping label and affixing it to a box. Depending on the order, it takes from 4 to 7 people to complete this process properly. We check the weather conditions here where they fly out of the Indianapolis UPS facility and the destination for each shipment. We start early each morning and go through a multi-step process to have the day's shipments prepared in time for the UPS pickup. The volume of orders in our system also affects the processing time. Therefore our stated handling time is 1-9 business days. 

Shipping Rate

Pricing is by size of package needed to fill entire order and distance it must travel. It will be calculated at checkout.

 

 

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