Another amazing test kit from our friends at Red Sea

[duerr]

RO/DI straight from the spout, no salt, no buffer, nothing....

I should have known better, but I thought I could skimp on test kits...I suppose I learned a valuable lesson.


Does anyone have an e-mail adress for these goons ?

 

[duerr]

BTW, I'm aware that this is not a 'true' representation of harmful ammonia in the test water, and still needs to be converted, however, the test is still giving a false positive.

Whats the customer service like for these goons ?

 

[a4twenty]

take some water to your LFS and have them test it. when did you last change your carbon pre-filter?

 

[Dan Thrash]

damn i hope this isnt representative of all their tests cuz i just bought their marine and reef test kits. i would have liked to have gone with Salifert, but i didnt want to spend $200 on test kits right now.

 

[Alaskan Reefer]

Sorry, those test kits stink. Salifert or Lamotte for test kits, the rest are all questionable.

 

[Habib]

Perhaps your kit is OK but the ammonia is from the chloramines in the tapwater.

Perhaps a4twenty's comment was about chloramines.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6950177#post6950177 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by a4twenty
take some water to your LFS and have them test it. when did you last change your carbon pre-filter?

 

[duerr]

I don't have an RO/DI unit of my own. my Tank is FOWLR, and I've been using RO/DI for my water changes and top-offs since I got away from a sand bed (went to CC).

I get my RO/DI from the LFS, and I trust them as far as the quality of the RO/DI goes.

I might try distilled water tonight. and see what happens with that.

Either way, I'm still trying to find some kind of e-mail address to contact Red-Sea, because this kit is worthless, and I want my money back.

I may send an e-mail to the vendor and see if they can forward contact info for me.

 

[bertoni]

You could try testing some tank water with it, too. Distilled water isn't necessarily clean, IME, although I don't remember whether I've found ammonia. I know I've seen nitrate or nitrite.

 

[duerr]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6955108#post6955108 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bertoni
You could try testing some tank water with it, too. Distilled water isn't necessarily clean, IME, although I don't remember whether I've found ammonia. I know I've seen nitrate or nitrite.

John,

My tank water shows 0.25PPM consistently. Is there some water that I should be able to test that is a good "zero" all around ?

I would have guessed that RO/DI straight from the spout would be a good indicator of test accuracy. and then titrating ammonia into said water, and testing it at known certain levels of ammonia, and checking the tests accuracy.

 

[bertoni]

Well, there is some concern that the RO-DI water isn't clean. I must admit that I had troubles with my Red Sea test kits, including the ammonia, and ended up returning them.