My highest ever nitrate, where did it come from??
- Thread starter Hendre
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I have plants, the light just isn't great... Water changes would be better
I've heard mixed reviews about digital meters. What is that exactly?
What is a Hach Dr900?
Hendre
, is the drought over? Remember you guys had some serious water restrictions. Yeah I’m not the best with my shrimp tank either. It’s salt water and I change it every 2 weeks. It only had one fire shrimp in it though..but need to get back on the weekly schedule. Meanwhile I do my polys tank 1-2 Times a week.
Good job on the poly tank up the water changes for the shrimp if you can.
Would love to see some pics of the shrimp.
Hendre
, is the drought over? Remember you guys had some serious water restrictions. Yeah I’m not the best with my shrimp tank either. It’s salt water and I change it every 2 weeks. It only had one fire shrimp in it though..but need to get back on the weekly schedule. Meanwhile I do my polys tank 1-2 Times a week.Good job on the poly tank
up the water changes for the shrimp if you can. Would love to see some pics of the shrimp.
Far from over
Fire shrimp are cool! I have freshwater shrimps, they breed like rabbits!
Hach DR900 is an industrial grade colorimeter, a device that uses light transmission to detect the concentration of something in solution. It's accurate and reproducible. Costs about $1500. You can test for a whole bunch of things in water!
Although many of the high tech colorimetric analysis machines are great, there is additional cost in reagents, and tech support. And price sometimes reflects accuracy, and reliability.
I used a multi-parameter reader that ran about $20,000 when I worked in a lab.
There were separate reagents for each of 200 tests (nitrate, alkalinity, difference metals, etc) that had to be fresh. A DI blank, a Standard, and the sample all needed to be run for each test, and monthly tech support was needed which added exponentially to the cost.
some of the pro strips available from companies like Fisher Sci, would be a better choice for most aquarists
Being under a water conservation restriction, the saving of rain water would be a high priority for me, and it was, even though where I lived before, water was plentiful.
I used a multi-parameter reader that ran about $20,000 when I worked in a lab.
There were separate reagents for each of 200 tests (nitrate, alkalinity, difference metals, etc) that had to be fresh. A DI blank, a Standard, and the sample all needed to be run for each test, and monthly tech support was needed which added exponentially to the cost.
some of the pro strips available from companies like Fisher Sci, would be a better choice for most aquarists
Being under a water conservation restriction, the saving of rain water would be a high priority for me, and it was, even though where I lived before, water was plentiful.
Thank you for the tip on the Fisher pro strips!Although many of the high tech colorimetric analysis machines are great, there is additional cost in reagents, and tech support. And price sometimes reflects accuracy, and reliability.
I used a multi-parameter reader that ran about $20,000 when I worked in a lab.
There were separate reagents for each of 200 tests (nitrate, alkalinity, difference metals, etc) that had to be fresh. A DI blank, a Standard, and the sample all needed to be run for each test, and monthly tech support was needed which added exponentially to the cost.
some of the pro strips available from companies like Fisher Sci, would be a better choice for most aquarists
Being under a water conservation restriction, the saving of rain water would be a high priority for me, and it was, even though where I lived before, water was plentiful.
