Where do you pull your test water from?

[Falco]

I am in the process of setting up my Trident unit and was wondering where best to take the test water from. Where does everyone pull theirs from?

I usually take from one of my sump sections, mainly the drain area. I dose 2 part in the main area of my sump so I feel like if I grab the water coming from the display BEFORE it gets mixed with the 2 Part I will get a close reading on what the display water is running at.

Whats everyone else doing?

 

[Billdogg]

I take it from the easiest spot to get to, so the DT. I really should not make any difference whatsoever.

 

[New&no clue]

I take from the sump because when I pull out of DT I usually get some drips of water running down the glass. Then I have to clean the glass, so I prefer the sump

 

[Falco]

one thing I forgot to mention on my setup is that I have the sump and all my test equipment in my filter room which is in the basement. So to pull water out of the display would be a bit more up and down the stairs for me.

 

[Gareth elliott]

Grab from my skimmer section with a syringe if doing one test. If doing several i grab a cup from the dt. Whichever is easier for amount of water needed.

 

[InkedReefLady]

If doing a bunch of tests, I grab a cup or so out of the display so I don't have to keep running back forth from the dining room table where the bulk of the testing occurs.

 

[Scurvy]

I run a Triton system. For a regular manual test I pull what I need from the display tank using a syringe.

I have my Trident pulling from the skimmer chamber which is after my refugium. I had initially set it up to pull from the drain section before the refugium but calc/mag tests were bouncing all over the place so i moved it. Air bubbles I believe were throwing it off. Its measures much more consistently from the skimmer chamber.

 

[chefjpaul]

Closet to the testing device possible.

 

[Falco]

I run a Triton system. For a regular manual test I pull what I need from the display tank using a syringe.

I have my Trident pulling from the skimmer chamber which is after my refugium. I had initially set it up to pull from the drain section before the refugium but calc/mag tests were bouncing all over the place so i moved it. Air bubbles I believe were throwing it off. Its measures much more consistently from the skimmer chamber.

good to know and makes sense. Where do you do your dosing (if you do any)?

 

[Scurvy]

good to know and makes sense. Where do you do your dosing (if you do any)?

Right now all Triton elements are dosed in the return pump chamber. I will probably be moving parts 1&2 to dose into the refugium and leaving 3&4 where they are when I let the Trident take control of the dosing.

 

[phatduckk]

I have my trident pulling from the skimmer chamber. A couple reasons: 1) I dose to the return and don’t want to draw/test newly dosed water 2) the line reaches lol

 

[ca1ore]

Cannot see how it would matter from a testing accuracy/precision perspective. Trident has some ‘rules’ about how to get the sample water - just pick the spot that best meets the guidelines.

 

[jaybe]

I realize this post is focused around the Trident, but for manual tests - make sure you rinse / wash the container you're pulling into several times with water from the area and then test.

 

[Falco]

I realize this post is focused around the Trident, but for manual tests - make sure you rinse / wash the container you're pulling into several times with water from the area and then test.

Agree 100%. I never meant to make this thread to focus on the trident, more just to see where everyone is testing from. When I do manual tests I also rinse with tank water a few times before doing the test.