Steve's Reef Diary - new experience

[Grins]

I am holding both a FW and a SW card now and there is a definite difference. Where the FW 0ppm is a bright butter yellow it is a burnished gold on the SW.

edited to add: There are a few cards in the kit that will still work, I think the nitrates will. On the top of those cards it lists it is for both FW and SW.

 

[magakitty]

On the .25, .05, etc., is the color even close? the color kinda matched the FW card at .50, but was milky

 

[Grins]

Hmm, the whole ammonia card is a bit darker. If the color you're getting is closest to the .50 FW you probably have a 0-.50 SW reading. You can always take it to your LFS for a test if you need to be certain.

 

[magakitty]

Thanks, Grins. We really need to buy a kit, but we are SOOOOOOO broke right now, and now that we have the SW tank, I think we are going to stay that way :rofl:

 

[magakitty]

What about the Nitrate card.... Darker? Lighter? different color altogether?

 

[Grins]

nitrite:
0 looks the same, 5.0 on FW looks like 10 on SW, 20 on FW looks like 40 on SW

nitrate:
same card

pH:
not even remotely similiar

 

[magakitty]

Cool - thanks for your help - that will get us by for the next few days - until payday... God knows, we might as well sign our checks over to the lfs. That's where all our money goes anyway... :rofl: $280 this week... Shheeesshh who'd a thunk? But we love our fishes and they deserve the best!!

 

[Grins]

I hear you on that, this hobby bleeds money.

 

[magakitty]

Totally - and we really haven't gotten started on the SW part yet. All we have in the tank is live rock, oh, and I forogt to say that we added live sand last night, crabs and snails.

Last night at fishie club meeting (at the lfs) we bought worms as well as the sand, crabs and snails, and everyone was joking with Steve about having crabs and worms.

 

[Grins]

I wish you had asked about the sand here first. You could have saved some money with buying a good aragonite minus the live part. The live rocks will seed the sand without needing to pay extra for it. What kind of worms did you buy?