Worthless test kits......

"Richard Sexton" wrote in message
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In article ,
Gill Passman wrote:
Koi-Lo wrote:
Jungle's Quick Dip sticks! Worthless... I called the water co. and
spoke to them about the high nitrates coming from my tap. Uh oh,...
these quick-dip sticks are very, very off.

My reading was 20ppm nitrates and his was .34ppm = what a difference!

You two are not testing the same water! Can you take a sample there
and have him test it? Not what he uses; hobby nitrate kits are, um,
"sub optimal".
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No. They have a professional Laboratory in Lebanon TN do their tests. They
only do certain tests there but you can't just walk in with a bottle of
water and have them test it for you.

If my kit is off by around 19ppm then my tanks really have a Nitrate reading
of 39 or 40ppm and not 20ppm as the strips show. :-(
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