Respectfully I have to disagree.
Reagents are chemicals that can be obtained from many places.
The convenience of buying Hanna or API and the like are not in anyway a subscription.
The equipment will still function using other reagents.
But anyway I like the way the tech is moving forward in this industry.
I don't know if Mindstream will wind up the top dog, and the equipment to have over everything else.
For me at the current cost of $1,000.00, my gut and common sense tells me to wait and see.
Let the initial pioneers do the testing and I will consider purchasing way down the road.
Out of the 10 things Mindstream will test for in my opinion are thirdly redundant to what we already have in use for the most part.
Salinity, Temperature, pH**, Ammonia.
I don't know if Ammonia is even needed for established systems.
We will know what the salinity is when we mix and perform water changes.
Temp well I currently have three ways to read that now.
PH, well anymore once its stable then aside from double checking now and again its not as much of a concern anymore.
Oxygen, Potassium, well ok I guess this is on the list but truly something we need to monitor?
Carbon Dioxide? Same do we need to know?
The big three is the key. Alkalinity, Calcium, Magnesium, and what most of us want to know.
That’s cool, but I’ll still get one. I want more data.