Triggerfish
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anyone ever use the salifert kit with cupramine,,if so, how did it work out?
Cupramine w/salifert kit?
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LargeAngels
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No experience. Red Sea Copper Test Kit is the best to use, IMO. It only goes up to 0.4 ppm, but that is an affective level. I don't know what other test kits measure Cupramine accurately. This is from Seachem's site.
Q: The Cupramine on line instruction says "dose of 0.5 ppm" but the bottle instrction says .5 mg/l. Is there any difference between ppm and mg/l? I could not find Sea Chem test kit so I bought Red Sea test kit which is non-chelated base and ppm units. Is it OK?
A: The use of the Red Sea kit should be fine. The recommended dose of Cupramine will get you to .5 mg/l.
The relation between ppm and mg/l is the same, they equal 1 : 1.
Q: The Cupramine on line instruction says "dose of 0.5 ppm" but the bottle instrction says .5 mg/l. Is there any difference between ppm and mg/l? I could not find Sea Chem test kit so I bought Red Sea test kit which is non-chelated base and ppm units. Is it OK?
A: The use of the Red Sea kit should be fine. The recommended dose of Cupramine will get you to .5 mg/l.
The relation between ppm and mg/l is the same, they equal 1 : 1.
Triggerfish
Active member
thx for response..however,,based on seachem response you posted..it sounds like you dont even need to test as long as you dose what they recommend you will reach .5.
lmao..then why bother offering a test kit for the product.
i wonder why the seachem kit was not manufactured to read up to .4 like the red sea kit? hmmm..maybe cause they recommend maintaining dosage at .5..lmmfao!!!!
my past experience with this product using the seachem test kit did not validate what their stating there.
LargeAngels
Premium Member
Seachem has had quite a problem with their copper test kits. I've received 3 directly from Seachem and still had issues. If you do a search on their vendor forum you will see others that have problems also. Using their directions with Cupramine and testing with Red Sea I've found that it comes really close.
If you have Calcerous rock or substrate and/or protein skimmer in the system then you will need to test often as these do remove Cupramine.
If you have Calcerous rock or substrate and/or protein skimmer in the system then you will need to test often as these do remove Cupramine.
Triggerfish
Active member
yeah,,i remember they had a bad 'batch' of kits last year or whenever.. the one i used worked ok,,but had to add more than what was stated to get it reading at recommended level..
now that kit no longer reads even after them sending me replacement liquid reagent.. i guess the powder part has expired.
or maybe the copper itself..wonder what shelf life of that is.
now that kit no longer reads even after them sending me replacement liquid reagent.. i guess the powder part has expired.
or maybe the copper itself..wonder what shelf life of that is.
LargeAngels
Premium Member
I don't think it is the copper. My Red Sea has always matched what I should be reading.
Triggerfish
Active member
thanks for the info....
