Broken hanna testers?

BuddyBonButt

Well-Known Member
View Badges
Joined
Apr 9, 2022
Messages
758
Reaction score
299
Location
North America
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
I purchased a hanna nitrate checker and phosphate ulr checker. I wanted this because I'm currently fighting amphidinium dinos.

My tank is roughly 4 months old, no Coral, 3 total fish with a bit of clean up crew. Nothing but rock and sand. No scrubbers or gfos to remove anything, no fuge. Even have skimmer turned off most of the day to get nutrients up. Theoretically it should be next to impossible to remove these nutrients.

I bought nëonitro and nëophos as well and dosed my tank to roughly 4.0 nitrate. Waited a day and tested and it said I had 0.00 ppm. I checked with api and it said I had between 5 and 10. Before dosing, api said 0.

Looked into how to do it on YouTube, it never changed the color of my water for it to read. Figuring the Hanna tester was broken, I returned it. Well I just bought a phosphate one as well. The phosphate ulr. I dosed my tank to 0.03 PPM according to the bottle of nëophos's directions and when testing with my phosphate hanna tester, it still displayed 0.00 and didn't change the color of my water. so now I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong? No way both wouldn't work right? Bought off of amazon. And both packets of powder expire in 2025

I know they have a margin of error but for them to both read 0.00 less than 12 hours of dosing kinda seems wrong.
 

Rick's Reviews

2500 Club Member
View Badges
Joined
May 17, 2021
Messages
2,738
Reaction score
1,656
Location
Nottingham
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
:(
Can you not go back old school and test (abit of chemistry might be involved)
:(
 

Tuan’s Reef

2500 Club Member
View Badges
Joined
Dec 27, 2018
Messages
3,833
Reaction score
3,626
Rating - 100%
8   0   0
Try a reference solution

1660587116148.png


1660587201125.png
 

TOP 10 Trending Threads

WHAT AMOUNT OF LIVE ROCK AND SAND SHOULD BE PRIORITIZED FOR OPTIMAL BIODIVERSITY/FILTRATION?

  • 100% live rock + bagged sand

    Votes: 37 27.8%
  • 100% dry rock + 100% live sand

    Votes: 45 33.8%
  • 50/50 live/dry rock, 50/50 live/bagged sand

    Votes: 29 21.8%
  • 75% live rock, 25% live sand

    Votes: 12 9.0%
  • 25% live rock, 75% live sand

    Votes: 10 7.5%
Back
Top