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12-11-2006, 12:05 PM
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| | Zoanthid
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: ontario, canada
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I Use Amarican Pharmaceuticals And Found Them To Be Accurate. I Did Not Care For Red Sea As I Found All My Tests Results To Be Inaccurate...their Tests Take Longer As Well.
I Don't Like Seachems Calcium Test Kit...to Involved And I Found It To Be Inaccurate Too Many Times. Everything I Read On Testing Is That The Test Kits We Use For Our Aquariums Are Basically To Give Us An Idea Of What Are Readings Are At But It's Not An Exact. _________ 20g
25lbs LR
1 hydor koralia
rio nano skimmer FISH: blk/white clown, damsel, yellow watchman goby CORAL: grn open brain, acan, torch, rics, toadstool, zoo's
INVERT:[/u] hermits, nassarius, astrea, turbo's, nerites, crocea clam
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12-11-2006, 12:55 PM
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#12 (permalink)
| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
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I have allot of seachem and some salifert. I want to replace a couple seachem with some saliferts since im not happy with them, hard to read or inconsistent results.
Marc. _________ 
20Gal, 45 lbs LR, 65W PC 10 000K + 65W PC 20 000K + 10Gal sump/fuge
Livestock :hermit and snails, Green star polyps, Button polyps, Finger leather, Xenia, Zoanthids, Mushrooms, Yellow polyps, montipora digitata, acropora, ?mistery polyps?, mistery crab, six line wrasse | |
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07-24-2007, 05:07 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: KY, USA
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Salifert is having issues with the accuracy of their ALK kits, right now they are sending their kits out with reference solutions to make sure the kits are not bad. I use Salifert for all my testing but I also run checks with API ALK kit to compare. My salifert were reading 11.2 DKH with 3 different kits, but API was reading 7 DKH and sometimes 6. After a month of this my coraline was declining and I lost a couple of corals I contacted Salifert, ever since I've been using the API and the tank is rebounding nicely. API test kits use very good reagent, so for the money you are getting a good kit with API Alk, I can only speak for this kit not the others. Only downfall to API is it only shows you in 1 DKH increments and salifert with show you to the tenths, but for quick generalized tested my money is on API. | |
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07-24-2007, 03:30 PM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Sacramento, California
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Originally Posted by Maudsley  Salifert is having issues with the accuracy of their ALK kits, right now they are sending their kits out with reference solutions to make sure the kits are not bad. I use Salifert for all my testing but I also run checks with API ALK kit to compare. My salifert were reading 11.2 DKH with 3 different kits, but API was reading 7 DKH and sometimes 6. After a month of this my coraline was declining and I lost a couple of corals I contacted Salifert, ever since I've been using the API and the tank is rebounding nicely. API test kits use very good reagent, so for the money you are getting a good kit with API Alk, I can only speak for this kit not the others. Only downfall to API is it only shows you in 1 DKH increments and salifert with show you to the tenths, but for quick generalized tested my money is on API. | I use API solely because it was the only test kit the LFS carried. I hadn't heard any comments on their kits, until. So thanks and karma to you!
Linda _________ Linda 29g Nano 2 FSL 8000k 36w & 2 AquaLux 36w Blue Pump: 1200 LPH; Maxi-Jet 600 Powerhead 100w Visi Stealth submersible heater 15 lbs. live rock 20 lbs. live sand LIVESTOCK: 1 cleaner shrimp; Asst. snails, 1 emerald crab, Pierre the Cleaner Shrimp and acrobat extraordinnaire, 1 button polyp, 1 green star polyp, 1 red mushroom, 1 Xenia, 1 octopus coral, 1 torch, 1 frogspawn, 1 tree coral, 1 stag coral. Established: 6/20/07  | |
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07-24-2007, 04:37 PM
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#15 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami Age: 39
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Hey Tony, try API, they're some where in the middle. IMO _________ 9YR OLD 90G 30G w/d Mag18 150G skimmer 692w MH,yel&kole tang,foxface,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Goniopora(2), Acropora(2),Brain, Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, R&G open brain, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, enias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew  | |
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