Triton Test Analysis.....hmmmmmm (1 Viewer)

[jhill9]

Just got my results in. I was expecting my results to be a lot worse. Do they not test Alk? Not seeing it on the sheet.

Looks like my Mg test kit is way off and my Ca test kit was off by over 10%. What test kits do you like? Currently using Red Sea.

 

[Diesel]

You cannot get alkalinity from the Triton test.

 

[RR-MAN]

If you have more delicate corals such as SPS for instance, use test kit like Salifert. It's much more precise when you are testing DKH, CAL, MG.

I'm using Salifert and Elos and compare results.

 

[Diesel]

I use two test kits also to compare.
Using Hanna and red sea but never use regents that are older than six months.
Btw, they never made it that far any way as I need new regents for both every three months as I test ALK daily.

 

[OceansX]

The machine Triton Labs uses can only give you an elemental analysis. It could provide you with total oxygen, but not O2 concentration, and in theory total carbon, but not your alkalinity which would mostly be roughly HCO3 +2CO3 at a pH of ~8.2

I don't know how they determined/calculated PO4 with their machine. I wouldn't trust that number as gospel as I suspect it is a calculated value from the total phosphorus atoms they measured i.e the PO4 number provided is an estimate from the P atoms they measured.


EDIT: Ah okay, I think they assumed that for every P atom, it was in a PO4 molecule. Then for every 30 ug of P, there is ~95ug of PO4; so the PO4 provided is calculated number. That's a reasonable assumption, and provides a worst case, conservative number - the upper bounds of your PO4 concentration in the tank's water.

Hmm, I'm going to sign-up for one these tests one day. I'm curious as to how my tank measures up