Good test kit to buy

[Brycen97]

alright i need a new test kit. what would be a good test kit/ kits to get for my fish tank? 20 long and just starting to put coral in so i need to test calcium and mag so what would a good kit be or test be? preferably under 60 all together.

[bertoni]

You will need an alkalinity test kit along with calcium and magnesium, since corals consume carbonate alkalinity for their skeletons to make calcium carbonate.

I have had good results with Salifert kits in general. The IO kits have been okay, too. The API calcium and alkalinity kits are reasonable, too.

[ramseynb]

It depends on what corals you're wanting to keep. If you're just keeping softies, you don't really need to worry much about calcium. I like Salifret test kits as well. Hanna checkers for phosphates and alk are great.

[cidbozek]

Redsea pro gives you cal,alk,mag in one kit

[SeargentSlice]

I have sailfert elos and red sea kits I personally like salifert elos has a lengthy process and red sea color wheel i can never judge it IMO and I use Hanna for phosphate

[scubaprashant]

I like my Red Sea kit.

[tmz]

I use salifert for alk, clacium,and magnesium. Api or slaifert for ammonia and nitrate . A colorimeter for PO4.

[lessans]

I've used API for Calcium and it worked reasonably well, but I might buy a Salifert kit when I need a new kit.