Color Blindness And Water Parameter Readings

[CrashingWaves]

I'm partly colored blind, nothing too bad but it does making testing water parameters somewhat difficult. It's kind of annoying having to bring in water samples to my local fish store, and I was wondering if there's any other way I could do it myself, other than putting drops in a test tube, getting one of those color charts, and trying to figure out which color it is. Any help would be appreciated.

God Bless,
Joshua

 

[fall-apart-dave]

WHat colours do you struggle with? There are ways around it that we use in teh electronics trade...

 

[ronanphilip]

i get the girlfriend to read them

There are ways around it that we use in the electronics trade...

what are they?

 

[CrashingWaves]

Yeah I've had my girlfriend read them once before as well.

I struggle with shades of green and orange, maroon and dark green, and blues and purples.

God Bless,
Joshua

 

[Luketendo]

Well for my test kit:

pH has blues and greens.
Ammonia has greens.
Nitrite has blues and purples.
Nitrate has yellow, orange and red.

Wouldn't be good for you.

 

[fall-apart-dave]

There are a few ways we get round it, using light filters etc. You struggle with such a broad spectrum though that no one way would work too well

 

[CrashingWaves]

It's too bad there's no electronic system you could dip in the water, and it would meassure out all the levels, and put the numbers on a screen.

God Bless,
Joshua

 

[fall-apart-dave]

Maybe there is a product like that aleady..?

 

[CrashingWaves]

Maybe there is a product like that aleady..?

It seems like in this day and age that there would be.

God Bless,
Joshua

 

[bordercollie05]

Maybe there is a product like that aleady..?

It seems like in this day and age that there would be.

God Bless,
Joshua

I know it exists for pH...I think its just called a pH meter.

 

[CrashingWaves]

I know it exists for pH...I think its just called a pH meter.

Do you have a link to one on an online store or something?

God Bless,
Joshua

 

[ronanphilip]

ive read something on here about some system hooked up to a PC but cant get search to work. think it was a big expensive set up though.



here is an intresting link for colour blind prople
colour blindness test

 

[bordercollie05]

[URL="http/plantitearth.com/store/product.asp?id=380"]http/plantitearth.com/store/product.asp?id=380[/URL]

This is similar to what I've used. We used them in high school chemistry. I don't know if this sort of thing exists for ammonia, nitrates, etc. It seems pretty pricy too, but if you look around maybe there's a cheaper version? Good luck!


EDIT: Just found a much cheaper one. [post="0"]pH meter[/post] I don't know about the quality of this one though.

 

[CrashingWaves]

http/www.drsfostersmith.com/product/pet_...cfm?c=3578+4416

I found some things here was well.

God Bless,
Joshua

 

[bordercollie05]

[URL="http/www.drsfostersmith.com/product/pet_...cfm?c=3578+4416"]http/www.drsfostersmith.com/product/pet_...cfm?c=3578+4416[/URL]

I found some things here was well.

God Bless,
Joshua

Cool! Kinda pricy, but it's neat that they exist!