WhistlingBadger
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The ladies at the dentist's office used to say I was "playing mad scientist" when I'd get out all the test tubes and start mixing chemicals.The liquid test kits definitely are more accurate! With the nitrAtes especially, you do have to shake, knock, bang, shake again and really shake the bottles and test tube for as long as instructions say, since it settles and separates and can give inaccurate results unless well mixed again.
Also handy to use something like a syringe to take a water sample from lower down in the tank rather than from the surface, plus also makes it easier to get the right amount of water in the test tube.
Last, but definitely not least - it makes you feel like a proper scientist Well, it does me, anyhow! Maybe I shouldn't have revealed that...