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Can I get some feedback on what you guys think the best test kit is?...Right now I'm mix-matched and need to re-up...Id like to get a good kit...thnks
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Salifert
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salifert also, always pretty consistent.
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salifert
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also hagen, ive put both of em to the test and the hagen were almost perfectly matching salifert...
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I do use Hagen for lots of things. Calcium and alk- salifert is the only way to go.
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Salifert > ALL
"When they was no meat we ate fowl, when there was no fowl we ate crawdad. And when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand."--Cellmate
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Ya'll might scoff at them, but I really like the FasTest for the ones they put out. The ingredients are packaged in individual foil packets on a per-test basis. They have a long shelf life and no chance of the regeants being contaminated from tank water, etc.. I don't believe they have a calcium, and don't know how they would do it with that type of packaging anyways.. but great for things like ammonia, nitrate, nitrite.
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I have used those and they are ok. I think the preference for the Salifert is the percent of accuracy. I mean lets take there Alk test compared to others, its just awesome that it goes done to the tenths.
"When they was no meat we ate fowl, when there was no fowl we ate crawdad. And when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand."--Cellmate
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