salt water test kits

[jnguyen4007]

I need to buy a salt water test kit and it seems that Salifert is the best to buy but then I read that they been going downhill lately. So, what else out there do you guys recommend? As far as testing the Ph goes, do you guys recommend a handheld Ph meter over the type that you get with a test kit or one of those Ph monitor device?

 

James

[ReeferMan]

I would get a monitor and a test kit so that you can check how accurate the probe is over time.

[YBeNormal]

Habib is active on RC again and working to confirm or refute the reports of bad test kits. He's been a very responsible vendor in the past and I have no reason to believe that this issue will not be handled correctly. I'd go with Salifert. If you have the means to supplement with a good PH monitor, so much the better.

[bigJPDC]

I have one of the Hanna instruments pH meter, the red one that goes to .0x, and it's awesome. No more strips or guessing a gradient of red to figure out if I am between 7.6 and 8.4. Some of the best, and least money that I've spent in this hobby.

The bad part is that now that I built an ATO and add buffer to my topoff reservior, I am always at 8.3-ish anyways, but it is a great timesaver and piece of mind-er when starting a new tank.

 

HTH

jp