My mom wouldn't buy a test kit for me, she doesnt want anything to do with my fish, heck my stepdad likes my fish mrowe than my mum(he used to have an oscar, and a perahana(sp?)) I ahd to [purcahe all my fish with my own money. But, my stepdad is more than willing to go out of his way to go 30 minutes over to petsmart just to get some fish medicince. One time, i had a fish that had fungus, and i didn't realize it was fungus, well, while i was at horse camp, he went to petmsmart, and told the guy the symptoms and got fungus cure!