Test Kits

[chr15_8]

Ive had a little search but couldnt find a direct answer.

Ammonia - Salifert
PH - Salifert
Nitrite - Salifert
nitrate - Salifert
kh - Salifert
calcium - Salifert
magnesium - Salifer
phosphate - d&d

Is there anything else i need to test for in a fowlr marine tank?

Also are the kits listed next to them the best for the type? (these are what ive picked up on).

I will eventually go onto to corals so what other kits do for these?

thanks
chris

 

[Trod]

That all looks good to me, I use the salifert for everything including phosphate and they all work fine for me.

 

[ben1987]

im sure i read somehwere that tmc was most accurate for one of them too, reckon it was calcium.

 

[rabbut]

Well, that's the full blown hard coral reef assortment. You don't need Calcium, Alkalinity or Magnesium test kits for a soft coral reef, and Phosphate is not needed for FOWLR

 

[chr15_8]

Thanks

Well, that's the full blown hard coral reef assortment. You don't need Calcium, Alkalinity or Magnesium test kits for a soft coral reef, and Phosphate is not needed for FOWLR

so for fowlr i would need

Ammonia - Salifert
PH - Salifert
Nitrite - Salifert
nitrate - Salifert
kh - Salifert

and for soft corals i would need the above + Phosphate?

thanks
chris

 

[rabbut]

Basically, yes. The KH and Alkalinity kits are usually one and the same. KH is very hard to measure directly in a marine tank, and hence is expensive to test accurately, so you test the KH by doing an Alkalinity test... It's not a direct Alkalinity reading, but it gets an accurate enough result. Either way, KH or Alkalinity kits are not needed unless you are getting hard corals

 

[chr15_8]

ok thanks

so its the main ones that are used in freshwater tanks then.

 

[ben1987]

yeah pretty much, just buy salifert one as the fresh water ones are really inaccurate when used with salt water

 

[chr15_8]

yes i will do.
thanks just thought there where more tests to do in saltwater (even without any type of corals etc)