SnowboardKid26 Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 I know we just had the what do you test for, but I'm wondering HOW everyone tests... if you use a chem test, what brand do you use? I use mostly red sea test kits because thats all that is available down here in Bend.... kinda sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DChemist Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 I've tested using both Seachem (NH3, NO2, NO3, Alk, Ca, pH) and Salifert (Ca and Alk)- I prefer the Salifert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H20cooled Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 Salifert is really the only way to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefboy Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 salifert hands down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowboardKid26 Posted July 21, 2006 Author Share Posted July 21, 2006 i had thought i heard those kits where unreliable. I use a seachem CA test and I'm pretty happy with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael7979 Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 I use Sailifert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DChemist Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 i had thought i heard those kits where unreliable. I use a seachem CA test and I'm pretty happy with it. Having used both Salifert and Seachem and my experience as a chemist- I would take the Salifert test kit any day over the Seachem. Just my two cents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefgeek84 Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 I do not think saliferts are worth the money... I do not test enough to justify the price for salifert...My seachems do fine...My best test is my eyes...If something looks off, then I test and the seachems let me know what is wrong. from the looks of it, I am in the major minority here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
180Bob Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 Salifert here. I wish everthing else in this hobby were as inexpensive as the Salifert test kits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefgeek84 Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 Salifert here. I wish everthing else in this hobby were as inexpensive as the Salifert test kits. They are not that inexpensive...you would need close to 100 bucks in test kits alone for a tank...seachem I spent like 40 or less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
180Bob Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Let's see 2 400W halides, an external return pump, cls pump, skimmer, sump............., the price of the test kits get lost in th noise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefgeek84 Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Let's see 2 400W halides' date=' an external return pump, cls pump, skimmer, sump............., the price of the test kits get lost in th noise.[/quote'] Some one that is on a semi budget (that term used as lightly as it can in regard to this hobby), that 60 bucks saved could be used for a better skimmer or maybe some extra t-5 lights or the extra little to get a calcium reactor set up, or a better pump to make the corals happeir, or a refractometer...I agree to a point that it would get lost in the niose, but I did my tank on as much of a budget as possible, and that 60 bucks went to somewhere better and my tank is doing fine...Again, I have some expeirence in this hobby, my eyes are my test kit, (exception calcium) if anything looks off it would be off enough to register on the test kits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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