Survey- Water test
- helix8008 (Tomas Novak)
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I`m running survey to help me with project on water testers. It is 100% anonymous and no personal data are collected.
It will take less than 3 min.
Survey link: surveyhero.com/c/4f90eb9
Much appreciated!
Tom
PS: if you already filled out survey via facebook post no need to do again
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- anthonyd (Anthony Debesne)
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If you could come up with a tool monitoring ph and nitrate in multiple tanks, i will be REALLY interested

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- helix8008 (Tomas Novak)
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Yea Anthony, thats definitely something to consider. Many ppl have multiple tanks.
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- igmillichip (ian millichip)
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The pH probes are relatively cheap compared to the ion selective probes for nitrate though.
Mind you, what is more important than having an automated/continuous test system is taking meaning from the results.
ian
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- helix8008 (Tomas Novak)
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For sure it need to be simple to use too.
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- anthonyd (Anthony Debesne)
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The major problem i have is testing nitrates, have difficulty reading the coloured charts and testing the water for it in 20 tanks is a real pain

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anthonyd wrote: I have an electronic tester for ph which works fine for what i need.
The major problem i have is testing nitrates, have difficulty reading the coloured charts and testing the water for it in 20 tanks is a real pain
The nitrate test has always been a problem.
In the days when I was pleading that fish keepers test for Nitrates (esp for breeding marines), not many people took notice and I knew of no other fish keeper testing for nitrates at that time (apart from Graham Cox's group at Waterlife).
My own made nitrate test kits of then are much the same as used today in principle.
The nitrate test is not even a nitrate test kit in all of the common kits that I have reviewed............it is a nitrite test kit; and that means that it cannot be, by default, over sensitive.
That it is a nitrite test kit also means that spurious zinc or other reducing agents with a RedOx potential sufficient to reduce nitrate to nitrites will potentailly give false highs.
It is not worth my while to make my own pH meters anymore as 30 euro is so cheap............but electronic nitrate test probes are still quite pricey, but they are much smaller than my old electronic systems and probably much more stable than my old nitrate selection probes.
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Just to try give some more results to make the information a bit more comprehensive
If you dont mind, Im going to post the survey onto a fb page to get more results for you!!!!
Neil
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robert wrote: hi Ian I see cheap ph electronic tester on ebay these are only 5 0r 6 euro are they any good , I tend to be old school and use API liquid test kit , although I dont test so often once the tank has matured and settled down . Will electronic tests work if one is using organic aqua in the tank ?. thanks Robert
@Robert………I would prefer to keep my local aquatic shop in business rather than save 20 quid

As for the Organic Aqua think, I find the publication by the owners of Organic Aqua about it messing up tests to be a bit questionable from a scientific point of view (let’s face it the producers blurb would be better left off the product tbh). But that is a debate for another topic. OA should not have any unexpected effects on an electronic pH probe over and above any other treatments.
I’ll also re-bump the Ops post here…………
helix8008 wrote: Hi guys,
I`m running survey to help me with project on water testers. It is 100% anonymous and no personal data are collected.
It will take less than 3 min.
Survey link: surveyhero.com/c/4f90eb9
Much appreciated!
Tom
PS: if you already filled out survey via facebook post no need to do again
Ian
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I completed the survey too. Hope it helps with what u need it for.
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- helix8008 (Tomas Novak)
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Neil, please feel free to repost link anywhere, need decent number to get statistic probability accurate.
Tom
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