So I'm gonna be stepping up my coral game here soon. What kind of tests do I need to pick up and what company do you prefer? I have the API saltwater master test kit (pH, ammonia, nitrite and nitrate) , But what about calcium, alkalinity, iodine, magnesium, phosphate, etc. Its going to be just a softie and LPS tank for now. Eventually I'll break into SPS but prob not for another 6 months...
What tests should I get?
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I just seen another mastertest by API today, dont know if its new but i've never seen it before is a "Reef Master Test Kit" tests calcium, Kh, Phosphate, and something else... cant quite remember... kinda funny I see that, then see this thread... Theres also a more expensive kit... I'll track down where I seen it, I think it was Dr. Smith Fosters something where It had a whole crap load of things in it in a big suitcase... Once I find it I'll post a link
Link for Reef Master
http://www.fosterandsmithaquatics.c...quality-testing/ps/c/3578/4345?s=ts&r=555+862
The other was Hagan not Foster and Smith... sorry... I actually used this same kit when I was Aquatics Manager at a LFS... It was pretty awesome
http://www.google.com/products/cata...&sa=X&ei=JW1gTo6nNuuCsgKktdgR&ved=0CEMQ8gIwAg
http://www.fosterandsmithaquatics.c...quality-testing/ps/c/3578/4345?s=ts&r=555+862
The other was Hagan not Foster and Smith... sorry... I actually used this same kit when I was Aquatics Manager at a LFS... It was pretty awesome
http://www.google.com/products/cata...&sa=X&ei=JW1gTo6nNuuCsgKktdgR&ved=0CEMQ8gIwAg
Calcium, pH, alk, nitrate...really all I have.
Phosphate is usually a meter situation vs a test kit.
Phosphate is usually a meter situation vs a test kit.