Yes that’s exactly how I learned about this unit too. I was tired of going to the fish store and paying for my water to be tested and tiny Hanna Checkers weren’t the most convenient.
Most don’t I didn’t at first because it looks the exact same but LaMotte has several versions of the WaterLink Spin Touch including multiple pool versions, drinking water ones, and of course the fish farming/aquaculture one.
Yes! Cookie is a Goniaster Tessellatus I’ve had for 8 months.
Yes they do. I explain everything in this thread and the accuracy.
Yes it does! It logs it on the system, you can print it, and there’s a service you can pay for to log it into your phone via Bluetooth and track it. That’s more for sending results to customers though and not worth paying for when it’s your own tester because it logs them in the unit.
Have you calibrated it?? How can your nitrates truly be 0 and phosphates 0.2??
Yea I did! Again because the tank is full of macroalgae and when doing other tests kits has always run low because it’s a minimally stocked and fed nano loaded with macros. My nitrate is now up to one which is on track with my dosing because I dosed some after this result.
Again no unit it perfect. I like it for fast results because I have multiple tanks in different locations. I also don’t keep hard to keep SPS corals and don’t dose my reef tank. And since running another test on the unit I believe it’s closer to 415 and makes more sense. I want to do a batch of freshly mixed saltwater I did run the same test multiple times and got the same results. I ran back to back tests as well and got very similar results/almost identical as well.
Yeah, there's always a standard error but for the sake of accuracy you might want to try to find the value of that standard error using averages from other test kits...i understand that calcium isn't important to you though if you don't keep hard corals (even LPS have a sort of skeleton though)...just an fyi, not only might you want to find a range for the standard error but recalibrate fairly frequently. I work with professional spectrophotometers at a university and even they need to be recalibrated fairly frequently. I do understand that you don't like testing. I do feel like theres less room for error when dealing with titration based test kits, however, than purely colorimetric or even spectrophotometric testers depending due to the complexity involved. Chemicals are chemicals at at certain concentration and chemistry dictates they will react the same every time if performed correctly while spectrophotometers are very complex and leave plenty more room for not just user errors but internal errors as well. Again, i do fully understand the disdain towards manual testing, i personally would just prefer to invest that amount of money in other ways for my tanks.
I plan too and actually you can only check calibrate it…you have to send it out for repairs/to be calculated by LaMotte if there’s major discrepancies.
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