Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

[Why-Me]

Also just think I could buy the hanna, oceanmajik phyto and red sea a+b food for the price of that milwaukee.
And will be no LESS accurate than that milwaukee, like I said for the price my money is on the hanna.
It MAY NOT be as accurate as the milwaukee but for my reef it's sure well good enough.
I'm getting THIS one.

 

[living_tribunal]

Also just think I could buy the hanna, oceanmajik phyto and red sea a+b food for the price of that milwaukee.
And will be no LESS accurate than that milwaukee, like I said for the price my money is on the hanna.
It MAY NOT be as accurate as the milwaukee but for my reef it's sure well good enough.
I'm getting THIS one.

I’d be interested to have a study ran of the Milwaukee cs the hanna handheld.

The Milwaukee is spot on every single time.

I think the salinity is not as consistent in our tanks as we’d like to believe, certainly not if you’re using a manual refractometer.

It’s worth it to keep the most important thing in my tank as stable as possible. It also just saves so much time. I just drop water on the well and boom test.

All of these options are better than handheld refractometers and within +-1 sg so skin that cat as you want.

 

[Why-Me]

Maybe I just got a good unit but it’s highly accurate and consistent every single time.

That's just it, it's really accurate; as long as all requirements are met.
I'm similar to Robin where I just wanna set it and forget it. (Boom, turkey's done!)
And for everything I've read the hanna meets my requirements; accurate, floats, portable, battery operated, sg + ppt and price

 

[Why-Me]

I’d be interested to have a study ran of the Milwaukee cs the hanna handheld.

The Milwaukee is spot on every single time.

I think the salinity is not as consistent in our tanks as we’d like to believe, certainly not if you’re using a manual refractometer.

It’s worth it to keep the most important thing in my tank as stable as possible. It also just saves so much time. I just drop water on the well and boom test.

All of these options are better than handheld refractometers and within +-1 sg so skin that cat as you want.

There is a milwaukee vs hanna salinity thread here on R2R
That thread is the final thing that made me swing Hanna, I was dead set on a Milwaukee.

 

[living_tribunal]

There is a milwaukee vs hanna salinity thread here on R2R
That thread is the final thing that made me swing Hanna, I was dead set on a Milwaukee.

I came across that. I don’t know if he recalibrated or his the well or what. It’s all good. That Jann unit is so expensive though.

I check mine with calibration fluid all the time and always the same result, very fast process as well. Maybe not as fast as the hanna but the accuracy is just piece of mind.

 

[Why-Me]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/salinity-measurement-face-off-hanna-milwaukee-neptune.538073/

 

[living_tribunal]

One thing I can say for sure is that you have to be super careful with the Milwaukee prism. If it gets the smallest crack or is not cleaned well, it could easily skew results after a year or so of use.

 

[Why-Me]

Next week is fish week here; getting excited

 

[Magellan]

Also my thinking with the hanna salinity checker is I can bring the thing to a buddies and pull out of my pocket and test their reef, collect frags and be able to match salinity with ease, I love the portability of it.
Also great for testing incoming frags or fish from the LFS or Online.

Mines portable too, says right there on the box :)

 

[Why-Me]

I have one of those too, nothing to test against though and closest LFS is 90 minutes away.
I'd rather get a new digital one and test against my old one.

 

[Why-Me]

....If I could just drive to an LFS like it was going to the gas station I'd have more tanks, fish, corals etc.
Tang police would be kickin in my door
They might next week anyways

 

[Magellan]

....If I could just drive to an LFS like it was going to the gas station I'd have more tanks, fish, corals etc.
Tang police would be kickin in my door

It’s about 20ish minutes for me. Not bad at all, I just take my doggo and go get water, browse the corals, look at the displays. They had a huge zebra eel last time that was cuddling some of the other fish, let the guy pet him like it was a cat or something. My favorite place in the world lol

 

[living_tribunal]

....If I could just drive to an LFS like it was going to the gas station I'd have more tanks, fish, corals etc.
Tang police would be kickin in my door
They might next week anyways

Don’t do it

 

[Magellan]

There’s another one about 30 minutes away that has mostly larger/more expensive corals, and then one about 5 minutes away but it’s more of a profit first type of situation so I don’t really go there unless I just need new filters.

 

[Katrina71]

I'm so old school compared to y'all.

 

[NY_Caveman]

but young in heart and soul

 

[Katrina71]

 

[Katrina71]

The foot has really gotten bigger. He's not a baby anymore :(

 

[Katrina71]

I sure hope he survives my crappy lights. ;)

 

[NY_Caveman]

The foot has really gotten bigger. He's not a baby anymore :(

They grow up so fast.