Re: NitrAte test kit

[Ed Street <br at ldl_net>]

Hello,

Another kit that you may wish to consider is Aquarium Pharm.  The test is
sensitive enough, however it does test for nitrate ion only.  Lamotte's
nitrAte kits test for nitrate-nitrogen.
http://www.actwin.com/fish/faq/water.html is a great article on just this
topic.

However, if you do decide to use the AP kit it needs a slight 
modification, pickup some type of test tube stopper that will *NOT*
leak!!!  When handling chemicals you can't have the kit leaking and
causing potentialy damaging situations occuring

Ed



>The difficulty is measuring total N ppm.  I've perused the archives and
>read all that is available on nitrate test kits, and it looks like the
>weapon of choice is the fairly expensive model from Lamotte.  My LFS,
>expert with saltwater reef aquaria, recommends the Salvert Nitrate test
>kit as an alternative (about 1/3 the price of the Lamotte), but they've
>obviously got a vested interest in selling me that item.

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