Test your potassium? (Zeovit users in particular)

Delphinus · #1 04-09-2008, 06:33 AM

I went and bought the Korallen-Zucht Kalium potassium kit today.

So I've already encountered a frustration. You're supposed to look through the opaque liquid, and the point where you can't see the colour anymore on the test strip tells you the potassium concentration ...

What if the liquid is completely opaque? I might as well been looking though skim milk. Does that mean my potassium is 400 or higher? That seems implausible seeing as I've never dosed or done anything about potassium before.

Any hints from the zeoheads here?

Joe Reefer · #2 04-09-2008, 01:59 PM

Hey Tony, I was having the same problem reading this test kit. (lots of light in the room helps a ton) It took 2 weeks dosing 6ml of k-balance daily to bring it up from 305mg/L. The picture is what 370-380 looks like. Hope it helps.

Jason McK · #3 04-09-2008, 02:26 PM

Tony I've been testing K for almost 2 years and share your frustration. It's a very poor test kit. But I assume it is not an easy thing to test for.

J

digital-audiophile · #4 04-09-2008, 02:50 PM

I have not started testing for it yet, I'm still not not convinced that it is 100% required IMO.

Jason McK · #5 04-09-2008, 02:56 PM

Aside from Amino Acid I would say Potassium is the number 1 improvment I've seen in my tank. As it was at around 250 when I started once it got to the 300 - 400 range I noticed large colour improvments

J

Joe Reefer · #6 04-09-2008, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by digital-audiophile

I have not started testing for it yet, I'm still not not convinced that it is 100% required IMO.

I disagree. Have you tested your K level yet?

digital-audiophile · #7 04-09-2008, 04:53 PM

I have not, hence why I'm not 100% convinced

I need to swallow the cost of the test kit first.

Delphinus · #8 04-09-2008, 04:54 PM

Thanks guys, yeah, I assume it's just a hard thing to get a quantifiable reaction on. The test kits that I have the least frustration with are those that involve a titration. I hate anything that requires me to guess a colour and compare it to a chart, apparently I'm colour blind.

Lando, how much ambient light was there in that picture? I was trying to do this at midnight last night, I guess that's not going to work out too well, I'll try doing it at high noon (and upstairs where there are windows) and try again.

I can just make out the colour strip in your picture. It feels like I'm going to be guessing an awful lot about with this one, although maybe with practise it will be easier to start getting some reasonably consistent readings.