Test Kits

[TriggerHappy]

What type of test kits do you guys recommend getting? I'm gonna need one soon, since I just started out and want to monitor the levels as my 50 gal cycles.

 

[reefrunner69]

I am partial to Salifert test kits, very accurate and user friendly.

 

[loganj]

I like the Salifert kits also. I have used Seachem with good results. I will even risk being publicly flogged by saying that the Red Sea Calcium Pro kit works well, is accurate, and is easy to use...I don't like their other kits though.

 

[TriggerHappy]

They have a kit that tests for ph, nitrate, nitrite, I think it's specially packaged for FOSW tanks. I might pick that up if they have it at the LFS. Tanks!!

 

[MT79]

I thought it was Frank Sinatra who said that!....anyway welcome to the site.

 

[BillyZ]

I'm also partial to the Salifert test. Much easier to read and results are more acurate, IMO.

[OT]I did a google on that quote.. there are as many references that credit that comment to Dean Martin as there are that credit it to Frank Sinatra. I even found one that credits W.C. Fields! We'll need to find an audio clip to know with any certainty who actually said it. Or perhaps its a case of who said it first [/OT]

 

[awillemd1]

More on Test Kits

I am a beginner and I made the mistake of first, not owning a phosphate teskit and second, of purchasing a phosphate testkit that stated on the box it was recommended for saltwater, but it turned out it was not sensitive enough. Based on a recommendation from this site I purchased the Salifert Phosphate test kit and I am very happy with it. (It showed me the primary source of my algae problem).