different Nitrate test?

[karavak]

I'm using the Red Sea drops to test my nitrates but I have a problem in that I have some colorblindness and can't see the difference between 5, 10, and 20. Is there another test kit that I could use or am I stuck until I can buy a digital($$$$) tester?
I know the ideal is to get it to zero but I'm having no luck as of yet

 

[florida joe]

Originally Posted by karavak
http:///forum/post/2863562
I'm using the Red Sea drops to test my nitrates but I have a problem in that I have some colorblindness and can't see the difference between 5, 10, and 20. Is there another test kit that I could use or am I stuck until I can buy a digital($$$$) tester?
I know the ideal is to get it to zero but I'm having no luck as of yet

Zero is not an absolute necessity

 

[sepulatian]

Originally Posted by karavak
http:///forum/post/2863562
I'm using the Red Sea drops to test my nitrates but I have a problem in that I have some colorblindness and can't see the difference between 5, 10, and 20. Is there another test kit that I could use or am I stuck until I can buy a digital($$$$) tester?
I know the ideal is to get it to zero but I'm having no luck as of yet

Besides a digital, they are all hard to distinguish colors in lower quantities of nitrates present. What kind of tank do you have? FO, FOWLR, or reef? In a FO or FOWLR, nitrates at 20 are not that big of a deal. If you have a reef then it would be worth it to invest in a digital test.

 

[natclanwy]

You could do what I do and ask you significant other to read it for you, didn't know I was colorblind until I started testing my fish tank. I can't distinguish different shades of yellow they all look the same to me

 

[karavak]

I would like to build the tank up to a Reef (I think.. Zoa's, mushrooms, BTA, inverts, and a few fish).
I have been using my son when he is over to help me do the tests :-D he gets a kick out of.