How often do you test water?

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Do you test water religiously everyday and night, or wheneveer you feel like it, or when something doesn't look right?

Just curious.

 

[masterswimmer]

Salinity whenever I mix salt.
Everything else, when things just don't look right.

swimmer

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Salinity whenever I mix salt.
Everything else, when things just don't look right.

swimmer

ME TOO.

 

[PalmTree]

Same here. I use to test all the time in the beginning. but I just do it once in a blue now.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

once in a while... salinity once a week if im lucky and when i make new salt water..

 

[jackson6745]

Usually test my cal + alk once per week

 

[EG99]

Usually test my cal + alk once per week

Same here.

 

[alrha]

idealy once a week, in reality, whenever i have time.

 

[jhale]

once a week for ca and alk and mg.

sg just for water changes.

temp a few times a day.

with sps and clams you need to fine tune the dosing amounts more often, thus you end up testing more.

 

[DonCisco]

Newbie here, so I test once a week. I have a nano, so it is important to keep tabs on my 12G. I have a Seachem ammonia monitor hanging inside the water (turns colors if there is a spike), temp at least once daily.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

temp a few times a day.

WOW you need temp alarm then:tongue1:

 

[jhale]

well, it's really just me looking at the digital read out on the chiller everytime I walk by it

but the alarm is not a bad idea also

 

[cali_reef]

Test? or monitor?

My tank's PH, temp, SG gets logged once every ten minuets, I see the noon reading on my cellphone everyday and a graph of the readings at night.

I test N03, PO4, KdH, Ca, and Mg weekly. Ca, Ph, and Kdh of the water change water are tested everytime a new bucket of salt is open.

 

[jejton]

You dont test nitrite or ammonia?

 

[charile1]

Test? or monitor?

My tank's PH, temp, SG gets logged once every ten minuets, I see the noon reading on my cellphone everyday and a graph of the readings at night.

I test N03, PO4, KdH, Ca, and Mg weekly. Ca, Ph, and Kdh of the water change water are tested everytime a new bucket of salt is open.

Damn you are hardcore.

 

[cali_reef]

You dont test nitrite or ammonia?

Do I need to??

 

[DonCisco]

Do I need to??

Well you check for the oxygen consumption of your live rock, you might as well check for the biggies. lol:irked:
Let me guess... you wear Obsession by Calvin Klein? :tongue1:

 

[cali_reef]

Well you check for the oxygen consumption of your live rock, you might as well check for the biggies. lol:irked:
Let me guess... you wear Obsession by Calvin Klein? :tongue1:

Who said I check the oxygen consumption? Do you feel there are needs to check for the validity of a nitrogen cycle in a well established reef tank?

And FYI, I don't use any perfume, those are for biotchs.

 

[meschaefer]

In the past I was testing only when things looked like they where not going well. Recently I have been testing Alk and Ca at least every other day as I am trying to get a handle on my uptake. My SPS have started to take off, and my Alk and Ca needs have dramaticly increased over the last couple of months. I also look at PH daily, but that is easy with a monitor, Magnesium I test monthly (if I remember)

That being said, I can't remeber the last time I did a Nitrate, Amonia or phosphate test.

 

[jhale]

in an established tank there would be no reason to test for ammonia or nitrite, they would not be present.

I just tested my NO3 and Po4 both are not detectable using salifert and seachem kits .
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