Red Sea Test Kit

[BLANKENSHIP76]

I know they are not very good, I have almost all salifert test however I am still usinf this kit for the ph and alk test.

I have a question on the alk test how do I convert the red sea findings into dkh, my water test out at 2.15 with that kit right in the middle of the range. What would that roughly be equivilant to????

 

[bertoni]

You need to check the manual to see what the units are. That sounds like it might be meq/L, which would mean your tank is on the low side. 2.5 meq/L is a good minimum. I target 3.5 meq/L.

Of course, I'm only guessing on the units. All in all, I didn't have good luck with my Red Sea test kits and ended up taking them back to the store.

 

[mg426]

If you have a red sea alk kit I believe that they do not give numeric values, just low, normal, high. I could not make any sense out of them either. Might want to try a Salifert Kit.

 

[XeniaMania]

Yeah...I'm having issues w/ their Calcium test kits. It's been reading between 450-500 (10 drops total of Reagent A) for 2 days in a row. It's either that, or my corals can't absorb calcium.

 

[Dan Thrash]

i have the red sea test kits and i find that the ALK test has an extremely wide accuracy range. off my head, what is it...0-1.7 (low), 1.7-2.5 (good), 2.5-3.5 (high)...or something like that. first off, 3.0 meq/l is not high...second, i'm always just guessing what the value really is. i'm going to get the salifert kit.

now, the other tests in that kit seem fine to me...so far. its just that the ALK is extremely inaccurate.