This alone would make it useless to me. Fast is fine and dandy but not if I can't rely on the results being accurate. It looks like this tester is pretty much all over the place. I'll stick with my Hanna checkers and other test kits for comparison when needed. Maybe in the future they can make it more accurate
I mean the thing is spectrophotometers are great when regularly calibrated and accurate but there's so much that can go wrong with them due to how complicated they are as well. I'll stick with titration kits personally...chemicals will react with each other because it's chemistry and chemistry doesnt change. Plus the disks you have to buy for this spectrophotometer aren't cheap either. Honestly while convenient and generally accurate, even the Hanna checkers have errors all the time with causes which range from smudges on the glass to old reagent. I'd buy Hanna checkers though if they were a little cheaper anyway tbh...looking for the easiest and simplest route isn't always the best (or anywhere close to most affordable route) generally though...This alone would make it useless to me. Fast is fine and dandy but not if I can't rely on the results being accurate. It looks like this tester is pretty much all over the place. I'll stick with my Hanna checkers and other test kits for comparison when needed. Maybe in the future they can make it more accurate
It’s not a spectrometer. I should mention. It’s a photometer. I just googled it there’s a difference I learned!
Hanna Checkers also have calibration fluid. I learned.
Yes but they're much cheaper so it's not nearly the same investment...I'm not trying to cast your choice in negative light (I'm really not) but since you don't have hard corals, which parameters are you actually concerned with (phosphate isn't precise and ammonia and nitrite should generally be 0 so i assume you're primarily just using it to measure nitrate). Oh and yes, there is a difference between Photometers and spectrophotometers. Spectrophotometers are more complex in how they work. Photometers do still need calibration though.
Yes it would if it weren't for the price. I'd also want to have an idea what the standard error was by comparing with various test kits though.
This, I only test for n&p anymore. I realized the corals will tell me if something's 'off'.I don’t even own a calcium or magnesium test anymore. They eventually expired and I asked myself… why am I buying or testing this. The values are always within normal range.
I found that to be the easiest method of testing
So I learned you calibrate it by plugging it into a computer/checking the software. And the disk it comes with checks calibration and calibrates as well. I thought it was just a check calibration that’s why.
The pool photometer version is different than the aquaculture version which tests saltwater and freshwater only.
