Water Testing - Electronically.

[Gary]

Hello,

I was wondering if you guys could recommend a probe or meter which tests the
water for the following:

- Nitrite
- Nitrate
- Ammonia
- PH

Any ideas? I hate these damn test kits!!!

Thanks for any help! I am in the UK.

Regards,

Gary.

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[Donald K]

Gary wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if you guys could recommend a probe or meter which
> tests the water for the following:
>
> - Nitrite
> - Nitrate
> - Ammonia
> - PH
>
> Any ideas? I hate these damn test kits!!!
>
> Thanks for any help! I am in the UK.

The pH isn't too hard to come up with...

"http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=9848&Ntt=ph%20tester&Ntk=All&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Np=1&N=2004&Nty=1"

The others? Look under aquaculture and expect to pay largeish bucks...

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[Jimmy Chen]

> - Nitrite
> - Nitrate
> - Ammonia
> - PH

A good pH monitor runs for around $100 USD that goes down to +/- 0.01 in the
pH scale. The ones that costs around $20-30 USD is useless as its only good
for +/- 0.2 reading.

As for the first three, unless you have a few thousands to spend I highly
recommend staying with the test kits. ;p

jc

[Kellbot]

are there any reccomendations for the easiest to read kits?

I honestly can't tell the difference between 0.5 and 5 on the Aquapharm
Nitrite kit.
Makes it hard to tell if my cycling tank is plugging along nicely or in
a state of emergency.

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look down thru the tube at white paper. if there is more than just barely
detectable, change water.
in science lab we usually use a control, that is plain water put all the chems in
that and compare. you can also take tank water, 1/2 of the 5 ml and add tap water to
do a 1:2 dilution and compare that to full strength. so 3 tubes
tap, 1:2 dilution, full strength and compare them ... soon you will know.
Ingrid

"Kellbot" > wrote:

>are there any reccomendations for the easiest to read kits?
>
>I honestly can't tell the difference between 0.5 and 5 on the Aquapharm
>Nitrite kit.
>Makes it hard to tell if my cycling tank is plugging along nicely or in
>a state of emergency.



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