Re: CO2 Test Kits

[Hoa Nguyen <nguyenh at nosc_mil>]

>From: Michael Moncur <mgm at starlingtech_com>
>Subject: Re: CO2 Test Kits
>
>on 01:48 AM 4/8/00 , James Purchase wrote:
>
> >The people who have had bad luck with Red Sea kits might just have lucked
> >into a bunch of old test kits which had been sitting on dealers shelves.
>
>I doubt it, I bought mine from Pet Warehouse and had the same results
>everyone else reports. With their turnover I doubt it sat on the shelf for
>long.
>
>Aged reagents might be the problem, but I don't think Red Sea dates their
>kits (as, for example, Mardel does with their test strips) so there's no
>way to know what you're getting.

I was out looking for Fe test kits last week, I saw some Red Sea 
"Freshwater test kits" which included Fe and CO2, at two separate fish 
stores, and all had expiration dates of 1998!  They do have a faint 
depressed date stamp on the bottom that is hard to see.  You have to look 
at it at the right angle to read it.

Hoa



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Hoa G. Nguyen
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