Survey- Water test

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

Survey completed . Robert

Just thinking about this would it be of interest if members posted test details of their own tap water , might be interesting to see results of different parts of the country

Done.
If you could come up with a tool monitoring ph and nitrate in multiple tanks, i will be REALLY interested

Cheers lads!

Yea Anthony, thats definitely something to consider. Many ppl have multiple tanks.

This is just a marketing survey for an automatic monitoring system. Give your email and they will annoy you with unwanted emails trying to sell you something.

Paul thats my survey and I dont collect any personal data. If I would want to sell you anything I would put it under sale topic

Automated monitoring systems for pH and nitrate are available.
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

There are some electronic test and automated tests but nothing commercially available for all parameters. Nitrate electronic testers are industrial, heavy and costly.

For sure it need to be simple to use too.

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

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.

ian

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

Took the survey there aswell earlier.
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

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 unless it were for a product that I desperately need and local shops don’t stock it.

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

Hey Tom,

I completed the survey too. Hope it helps with what u need it for.

Thanks guys, much appreciate it!

Neil, please feel free to repost link anywhere, need decent number to get statistic probability accurate.

Tom

Done, did anything further come on testing local tap water parameters?