Hi,
I saw the Red Sea Calcium Pro BETA (Reef Test Kit) directions for use on ReefBot image on your website.
So seeing this gave me some ideas. Since you're combining a powder reagent with the 3rd liquid reagent. I'm assuming you'll be able to do this with other brands of test kits eventually, correct? Such as NYOS or Giesemann?
As for proper amounts, simply using a gram scale that reads down to 0.01 or 0.001 grams would work. You can buy one off of Amazon for around $20. You would simply need to give us the mixing parameters, for example 20 grams liquid reagent C, and 0.5 grams of powder reagent B. Shake it up, or put it in a separate table top magnetic stirrer, and you're good to go.
Are their potentially other reagents you could combine? Like turn a 3 part reagent Magnesium test kit into 2, or a 2 part reagent Nitrate or Phosphate into 1 part? This potentially would allow use to run all 5 major elements (Alk, Ca, Mg, NO3, and PO4) on one machine at the same time.
Obviously supporting the different brands and mix stability would have to be after Reef Kinetics own internal testing, but the idea seems sound to me.
I saw the Red Sea Calcium Pro BETA (Reef Test Kit) directions for use on ReefBot image on your website.
So seeing this gave me some ideas. Since you're combining a powder reagent with the 3rd liquid reagent. I'm assuming you'll be able to do this with other brands of test kits eventually, correct? Such as NYOS or Giesemann?
As for proper amounts, simply using a gram scale that reads down to 0.01 or 0.001 grams would work. You can buy one off of Amazon for around $20. You would simply need to give us the mixing parameters, for example 20 grams liquid reagent C, and 0.5 grams of powder reagent B. Shake it up, or put it in a separate table top magnetic stirrer, and you're good to go.
Are their potentially other reagents you could combine? Like turn a 3 part reagent Magnesium test kit into 2, or a 2 part reagent Nitrate or Phosphate into 1 part? This potentially would allow use to run all 5 major elements (Alk, Ca, Mg, NO3, and PO4) on one machine at the same time.
Obviously supporting the different brands and mix stability would have to be after Reef Kinetics own internal testing, but the idea seems sound to me.