hi everyone... i got 4 test kits at the moment... wad other kits do i need to purchase?
Sera kH Test Kit
Sera nH3/nH4 Test Kit
Sera pH Test Kit
Sera CO2 Test Kit
and how u all manage to get the co2 readings? coz my co2 test kit only consists of 1 container to keep some aquarium water.. there is a colour chart, saying too high or too low co2 level thats all...
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You should have a NO3 and Fe test kit and maybe a PO4 if you are a beginner.
CO2 test kit that you have is only an indicator perhaps.
Knowing your KH and pH you find can out the CO2 concentration.
Check out this link to learn more about KH pH and CO2.
http://www.thekrib.com/Plants/CO2/co2-booth-faq.html
Madan Subramanian
Bangalore, India.
actualy since u have pH and kH testkits, CO2 testkit is not really required since these 3 are related ... 2 of these readings will give u the third parameter
if ur tank has been cycled already, nitrite and ammonia testkits also not needed ... perhaps NO3 (nitrate) will help ... last u wanna consider is Fe testkit (i dun use this) ... although many say not reliable ... hope tis helps
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Since we are on the topic of test kits....Are there any test kit to test for potassium and phospate?
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can someone pls give a detailed info about the different test kits.
so far i only know the basics, ph, no2, no3, nh4 kits but pls enlighten me about the co2 kh gh fe and pho kits.
pH and KH test kit (For determining CO2 concentration)
NH3/NH4 and NO2 test kit (Used generally for tank startup)
NO3, PO4, GH, Fe (For micro-management of nutrients or detecting problems like how come algae is blooming.)
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thanks peter i tried reading some articles on the net but i still dun understand about the nutrients thingie.
can you give me a short summary of each? i would greatly appreciate it thanks.
Plants basically needs large amount of macro-nutrients --- N (Nitrate), P (Phosphate), K (Potassium), Mg (Magnesium), Ca (Calcium) --- to grow and small amount of Micro-nutrients (available from commercial products like TMG, Flourish and etc.)
Recommend Concentration
Nitrate: 5-10ppm (5ppm seems better as plants like rotala macrandra do badly when nitrates are near 10ppm or over.)
Phosphate: 0.5-1ppm (Never go below 0.2 as nitrate uptake will slow down dramatically --- Tom Barr mention that to me..)
Potassium: 20-30ppm
GH: Hard to say ...I am abit loss on this (My tap water has a GH of 3..seems ok at the moment.)
Micro-nutrients: Dose according to new leaves colour..some use Fe test kit but might not be accurate.
Basically, I do still working on it as well....cannot drop the nitrate level no matter what I did..LOL. (Everything seems to be in place and nitrate shooting up to high levels has been solved. Now the problem is dropping it...or maybe the sera test kit is no good at measuring small changes as my nitrate is stucked at 5ppm.)
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hmmm
what about Fe? what is the recommended level for Fe?
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