test kit brands

[e-cat]

what brands of test kits do you prefer?
i have always used hagen but i bought seachems free/ total ammonia, nitrate/nitrite and ph/alkine test kits and thought id give them a try and from reading them the tests seem too go into better ranges. eg 0.001,0.002 ect not like hagens 0.01 , 0.05 ect

 

[reefrunner69]

what brands of test kits do you prefer?

Salifert

 

[jamal-188]

I use tetratest, pretty easy to read and hopefully accurate

 

[kidafius]

i have seachem's nitrate/nitrite test, but I don't think it works well for me. I follow instructions and all that, but it gives me readings of like 1.5 to 2 max. nitrate. I could just be in disbelief about such low levels, but I feel like it just isn't working correctly. I don't know.

 

[bizzybeas]

I have both the seachem and the sailfert nitrite/nitrate test kits. I absolutely love the sailfert. The results are more precise. I am slowly switching all of my test kits to sailfert. The only one that does not give me good results is sailfert ph test.

 

[birman]

I've used Salifert, Seachem and JBL. Think Salifert is still better in ease of use and reading.

 

[jackdp]

I've been using Tropic Marin for calcium, and it is hard to tell the endpoint for the titration. I just switched to Salifert and it is much easier to read. For pH I've been using Seachem with no problems. Also use Seachem for nitrite/nitrate, phosphate, and iodine....the iodine test is pretty tricky and not very good. I like the fact that Seachem kits come with a standard sample for verifying the accuracy of the kit. Tetra kits are cheap and easy to use for the basic tests (nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, pH, alk).

 

[e-cat]

I like the fact that Seachem kits come with a standard sample for verifying the accuracy of the kit.

i liked that also