Reef Success Coral test kit?

[reefgeek84]

has anyone work with this or know if it is decent? Please give me a little info.

Reef Success Coral Kit
To successfully grow beautiful and healthy corals in your aquarium, make sure you have the Reef Success Coral Kit. This is the complete kit for the growth and maintenance of hard corals. Kit contains: Reef Success Coral Trace, calcium adjuster, CALK calcium and bicarbonate along with a calcium test kit and an alkalinity test kit.

I am not concerned with what is in it, but more about the company that makes it.

 

[steve the plumb]

you need to test for magnesium,calcium,alkalinity,Posphates.Make sure you do water changes and have the correct lighting aswell as the proper current.Some corals prefer lots some don't.Read up before you buy.

 

[reefgeek84]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6811218#post6811218 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by steve the plumb
you need to test for magnesium,calcium,alkalinity,Posphates.Make sure you do water changes and have the correct lighting aswell as the proper current.Some corals prefer lots some don't.Read up before you buy.

I know all this, I am more concerned with the company that makes the kit, not what is in it. I just figured I would include the desricption cause sometimes people want that.

 

[steve the plumb]

I use the salifert.I am happy with the kits and many people use there test kits.

 

[reefgeek84]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6811290#post6811290 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by steve the plumb
I use the salifert.I am happy with the kits and many people use there test kits.

Again that is not my question. I am just curious about his kit specificly.

 

[steve the plumb]

sorry never used it.Why don't you just buy the salifert.

 

[reefgeek84]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6811389#post6811389 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by steve the plumb
sorry never used it.Why don't you just buy the salifert.

Cause the Salifert is very expensive. Plus this kit could cut out a few other kits and save me some money, while possibly giving me a couple of extra tests that I would not normally pay for. That why I am looking into this one.

 

[steve the plumb]

its not as costly as you think.If you do the low tests you get twice as many tests.My friend uses red sea wich is a good test kit.It the end the cost for the amount of tests you can do is the same.You can always buy the reef kits they have but I find in general you don't save that much money.Red sea is cheap an the results are accurate.Sometimes buying the cheaper tast kits isn't always that great.I bought the seachem iron and iodide and they don't work so I am not impressed.I also have the seachem calcium test kit,wich wasn't cheap and I never get the same results as I get when using the salifert or the red sea.

 

[frags4u]

Salifert is $$$$ But I use a kit made by Hagen that test 15 differnt items made just for saltwater.

 

[reefgeek84]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6811468#post6811468 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by steve the plumb
its not as costly as you think.If you do the low tests you get twice as many tests.My friend uses red sea wich is a good test kit.It the end the cost for the amount of tests you can do is the same.You can always buy the reef kits they have but I find in general you don't save that much money.Red sea is cheap an the results are accurate.Sometimes buying the cheaper tast kits isn't always that great.I bought the seachem iron and iodide and they don't work so I am not impressed.I also have the seachem calcium test kit,wich wasn't cheap and I never get the same results as I get when using the salifert or the red sea.

Well I have heard that iodide and iron are not good tests any ways no matter what company you buy from. They are just hard to test, same with oxygen, etc.

I am ordering from Drsfostersmith, and they do not carry the Red sea test kits.

 

[steve the plumb]

no they are not,useless test don't work.