Hey Everyone!
I wanted to get your take on test kits. I recently was fortunate to acquire a Mastertronic from BRS. I had a LFS help setup and calibrate the unit and it is using Red Sea pro solutions for Ca. It is currently reading at 561 and I think it is not quite calibrated correctly but thats not the reason for this post. While we were testing baselines to get everything setup the tech mentioned that the Hannah Ca checker (I currently have all of the Hannah testers and have been using them for a number of years) may not be the most accurate specifically for Ca and recommended the Red Sea Pro Ca kit. So I checked Ca yesterday with Hannah 2x and both readings were within 5ppm of each other (478 and 483). I tested again today with Hannah (480) and then Red Sea 2x. Both Red Sea tests came out at 380. Taking the Mastertronic reading out of it, what is your opinion on these kits? My Acros are stable but not really growing all that much. All of my other corals, (acans, shrooms, zoas, leather, digi, favias, platys, Pocillopora etc) are looking great. I am not chasing perfect parameters but am looking for a more stable calcium reading so I can properly calibrate my Mastertronic, dose Ca if needed, and get my Acros to take off like all of your awesome tanks. I appreciate any help in advance!
Alk is 9.4 and been rock solid
Mag is somewhere between 1250 and 1300
Salinity is 1.26
PO4 .003mg/L
NO3 is 4.82 (working on getting that down with WCs and modifying my feeding schedule)
Temp is 79
I wanted to get your take on test kits. I recently was fortunate to acquire a Mastertronic from BRS. I had a LFS help setup and calibrate the unit and it is using Red Sea pro solutions for Ca. It is currently reading at 561 and I think it is not quite calibrated correctly but thats not the reason for this post. While we were testing baselines to get everything setup the tech mentioned that the Hannah Ca checker (I currently have all of the Hannah testers and have been using them for a number of years) may not be the most accurate specifically for Ca and recommended the Red Sea Pro Ca kit. So I checked Ca yesterday with Hannah 2x and both readings were within 5ppm of each other (478 and 483). I tested again today with Hannah (480) and then Red Sea 2x. Both Red Sea tests came out at 380. Taking the Mastertronic reading out of it, what is your opinion on these kits? My Acros are stable but not really growing all that much. All of my other corals, (acans, shrooms, zoas, leather, digi, favias, platys, Pocillopora etc) are looking great. I am not chasing perfect parameters but am looking for a more stable calcium reading so I can properly calibrate my Mastertronic, dose Ca if needed, and get my Acros to take off like all of your awesome tanks. I appreciate any help in advance!
Alk is 9.4 and been rock solid
Mag is somewhere between 1250 and 1300
Salinity is 1.26
PO4 .003mg/L
NO3 is 4.82 (working on getting that down with WCs and modifying my feeding schedule)
Temp is 79