Hanna Alkalinity reagents price increase?

GarrettT · Jul 1, 2023

Yesterday I added 3 Hanna Alkalinity reagents to my cart totaling $39 ($13 per bottle). I was holding off on purchasing in case of a sale. Today I checked and the price is now $45 ($15 per bottle). Happy 4th July!!

Timfish · Jul 1, 2023

Another reason to use API's Alkalinity test kit.

FWIW, When I got my Hanna Alkalinity test kit I used a friends kit to test a sample of water. Using reagents from both kits in both testers on the same sample of water we got four different results varying by .9 dKH. Since researchers are using the meq/l scale and the dKH scale is ~~~1.9~~ x more sensitive seems inexpensive kits like API or Salifert are more than accurate enough.

Ooooooops! My bad! to convert meq/l to dKH multiply by 2.8. To convert dKH to meq/l multiply by.357

Acros · Jul 1, 2023

They are still $13 on some websites. They went from $9 to $15 in two years!!

GarrettT · Jul 1, 2023

Hanna - Tester -$64 + reagent $15 (30 day supply)
Salifert - No tester $0 + reagent $16 (100 day supply)

Hanna’s reagent is essentially $45 when compared to Salifert’s (not even including the cost of tester). Looks like I’ll go ahead and make the switch. Shame.

thatmanMIKEson · Jul 1, 2023

GarrettT said:
Yesterday I added 3 Hanna Alkalinity reagents to my cart totaling $39 ($13 per bottle). I was holding off on purchasing in case of a sale. Today I checked and the price is now $45 ($15 per bottle). Happy 4th July!!

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still 13$ ?, it was around 9$ pre covid idk % rate increases but it's been jumping up there for sure!

thatmanMIKEson · Jul 1, 2023

alkatronic is the way to go for me I currently test every 6 hours for pennies and it's surprisingly accurate to the Hanna test when I check it. it's so much cheaper to test since I've gotten it it's paid for itself if I were to be paying for Hanna alkalinity reagent for that many tests, plus my time it's way cheaper!