test kit recommendations for phosphates

Joe parrish

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Right now I have api test kits for most everything they work I wish they where easy I have a digital ph probe and love it.

How ever the phosphate test are about impossible for me to read I don't know if I am kind of color blind or what LOL.

I was going to go get some hanna checkers but after reading a few post I am hesitant any suggestions
 
Hanna is you best option although I had a bad reagent batch last month and I made a thread about it but just bough another pack and everything went to normal. U might also think of the phosphorus test, better for lower range but needs some calculations to convert it to phosphates
 
+1 for Hanna alk and Phos checkers.... The calcium one not so much, prefer salifert
 
Thought I had .25 phosphates with my API kit. Just started using my Hanna low range phosphate kit....shows 4x as much as the API. Trust the Hanna much more, find it hard to read the API phosphate test sometimes

Cheers!
 

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