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Posted	NITRATE TEST KITS
30-07-2006 22:35 by Lexter	have to have a moan now.... NUTRAFIN Nitrate Kit, what a JOKE!!!! the colour chart is ridiculous, the colours for 20mg/l, 50mg/l and 100mg/l are virtually the same colours, especially the 50 and 100 that are SAME COLOUR i tell you. Now, i know your nitrate should really always be below 50, and preferrably 12.5-25 BUT whats the point in selling a test kit where ultimately you Have NO IDEA what the result is??? Especially when it costs £8.99, you may as well take a wild guess if the reading is 20mg/l or over, coz the chart aint gonna help you!!!! I then bought a Tetra Test Nitrate kit which cost me £11.99 for 45 tests, ridiculous price, 26p a test, so nearly costing me £2 to check my 6 set-ups and tapwater. BUT, its definitly more accurate than NutraFin, for one they actually bothered to make the colours above 12.5 mg/l DIFFERENT.... Also i tested on the Tetra test and had one tank at 50mg/l and one at 25mg/l (or just below) When i did it on the Nutrafin one, same colour i.e. same level of Nitrate in both tanks??? Now for me the difference between 25 and 50 is very important!!! I know lots of test kits are not that accurate anyway ANYONE KNOW OF THE THE MOST ACCURATE OR WHERE I CAN GET A DIGITAL METHOD AND PROPER READING OF WATER FROM (WITHOUT GOING TO SHOP FOR THE PRIVELEDGE) - thanks
30-07-2006 22:45 by heros hero	hey good buddy, quality rant!!! Are these the dip tests you're using? Great for a ball park result but absolutely pants for an accurate measure.Gotta use the liquid tests for a decent answer. You cutting those strips in half lenghtways to double your money?
30-07-2006 22:48 by Lexter	Hello my dear Heros these are liquid ones mate, i never use test srips, i think they would make wanna rant even more
30-07-2006 22:51 by KOBISKYE	you could try ebay, i will now, and let you know
30-07-2006 22:51 by Lexter	thats my friend Kobiskye, let us know, think i will take a look now myself
30-07-2006 22:52 by heros hero	Found with the liquid tests that after you've given the bottle a shake, you need to shake it some more before adding to the test tube of water.Shaking the snot out of it was how an american chap described it to me!
30-07-2006 22:54 by KOBISKYE	they all seem to be ph only
30-07-2006 22:54 by Lexter	do you do many water tests Hero??? what set ups you got these days my friend??? I bought some Spirillum (spelling?) cichlids the other day, youngsters, are Cyrptopheros (spelling?) family, beauties, £1.95 for three young ones, about 1 inch big, look like a mix of Severum and Sajica they do mate,
30-07-2006 22:56 by KOBISKYE	i must admit i very rarely use these test kits, scottish water is the best though lol
30-07-2006 22:56 by Lexter	pH winds me up to Kobiskye, the colours are the same, yuo can only get "ball park" figure, i.e. acid or alkaline or "neutral ish" you would not be able to tell if it is 7.5 or 8 or 8 or 8.5 and i think for every difference (i.e. 7.0 or 8.0) is MASSIVE, if my science is correct, 8.0 is 100 TIMES more alkaline than 7.0 ???
30-07-2006 22:57 by Lexter	Kobisky how much to post 100 litres of your Scottish Water?
30-07-2006 22:58 by KOBISKYE	do u have a long hose
30-07-2006 23:00 by Lexter	not massively long, but i know how to use it
30-07-2006 23:01 by KOBISKYE	lol
30-07-2006 23:05 by heros hero	Lexter, you still the king of quick typing!!! Is not often that i test my water, only if i see the fish acting odd. Water comes out the tap with about 10ppm nitrates so water changes are never really a problem,even with the discus.Your spirulum (spelling!) are same family as cons aren't they? Just better behaved!Trade name jade eye?
30-07-2006 23:25 by Lexter	yes Jade Eye, just looked it up, cant find much about them?
30-07-2006 23:40 by heros hero	Same behavior as sajica i believe, in which case cave spawners with brilliant fry care. My good friend, you gonna love em.
31-07-2006 00:04 by deejdave	NUTRAFIN anything is a joke mate, I de-stocked it as soon as i took over my last fish shop lol
31-07-2006 00:05 by Lexter	what other Nutrafin products were you unhappy with??? I dont mind their ammonia tester, quite simple and reliable i found,
31-07-2006 00:09 by deejdave	Their foods, their treatments, their testkits... lol.. its all just a bit too cheap and cheerful... ok for goldfish and just mixed trops but wouldnt rely on any of it for africans, marines or specialist breeding set ups.
01-09-2006 11:56 by bluboy	i had some interpet easytests. the ammonia tests and nitrite tests were ok but the ph and nitrate were ***. on the color card my ph didnt show up as any of the colors they show and the nitrate i had the same prob as lexter. theyre all the same above 50!
01-09-2006 15:24 by Danny Boy	i know a stingray keeper that had a tetra safe test kit. it was about 10 yrs old but was a good kit. he would buy the replacement bottles to top it up when needed to keep it all going. one day he tested the water and it was way off so he messed with the chemistry to accomodate the test results and it turned out they had chnged the colours around so the kit was no longer any use. he lost £800 worth of rays in one week. after a lengthy debate he got refunded the cost and the product was removed.

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