I'm lost in some of this conversation, not understanding some terms and relationships but welcome any discussion that may lead to a reasonable test. However, for the seahorse hobby, terms like high or low may not mean much as what is low in REEF tank terms would be high in seahorse tank terms.
I think any test kit developed would have to lead to practical measurable limits determined by experimentation in the hobby. Until we can test for it, we can't determine the safe range, but hopefully we can come up with a NUMBER to give hobbyists to go by rather than high or low or something in between that will be construed differently by different people depending on what kind of tank they are keeping.
I don't believe that increasing DO levels in a reef tank are as severe a problem as in a seahorse tank, as reef inhabitants are not nearly as susceptible to nasty bacteria as the low immune seahorses are.
A question I still don't know is, are ALL DO's carbon or are there also DO's that WON'T be measured by a test for dissolved organic carbon?
I think any test kit developed would have to lead to practical measurable limits determined by experimentation in the hobby. Until we can test for it, we can't determine the safe range, but hopefully we can come up with a NUMBER to give hobbyists to go by rather than high or low or something in between that will be construed differently by different people depending on what kind of tank they are keeping.
I don't believe that increasing DO levels in a reef tank are as severe a problem as in a seahorse tank, as reef inhabitants are not nearly as susceptible to nasty bacteria as the low immune seahorses are.
A question I still don't know is, are ALL DO's carbon or are there also DO's that WON'T be measured by a test for dissolved organic carbon?