Someone explain to me this!

[Scythanith]

I don't even care if people have their own kits. As long as they don't expect a free ride at the LFS. The LFS owner is paying for the supplies as well as the time it takes for their employee to do the test and analyze the results.

I think my LFS is something like $2 a test.

[Chaloupa]

Couldn't agree more...it takes time, product especially if you're using quality test kits, and employee time. I own a small LFS....we were doing it allllll the time for one customer that was totally taking advantage of my staff....and taking advantage of my time and energy with using me to ask about product then buying it used from here or other buy/sell places.....it was a bit much and really drove me crazy...but my staff and myself just want to help people out...sometimes it never pays off.

[freeze]

I started off with the standard API when I was FOWLR. Now I have three different test kits for each.....I test twice a month on two kits. They should be close. Only took my water in once and that's when bad stuff was happening and I just couldn't figure it out. Tests are a must even if it's just an API kit. They aren't perfect but it's easy to tell what the bad colors look like. If your going to drop hundreds - thousands in fish and coral in your tank, 50-100 in test kits sounds like a decent investment.

[reefwars]

anyone have a test kit i can borrow?


seriously..... i want to test ph but a experienced reefer with lots of posts told me to throw mine over the fence and i think a new reefer may have picked it up...so now i need one lol

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by reefwars

seriously..... i want to test ph but a experienced reefer with lots of posts told me to throw mine over the fence and i think a new reefer may have picked it up...so now i need one lol

Seriously? And you listened to him? Dumb.....

[Aquattro]

Oh, and Denny, I saw a pic of your tank. pH is 8.1. You're good

[Samw]

The only thing I test for is DO and if I ever get bad results, it is too late anyways. Haha. But seriously, almost every time I test something, the values are good. I don't really test anymore. Even when I had algae problems, all the water parameters were good and I used Salifert.

[mark]

I'm to lazy to mooch so just bought my own

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Ok, I'm opinionated. Everyone knows that. So here's my latest. If you've been in the hobby for more than a few months, you should own your own test kits and not mooch off the LFS.

How is it ok to keep doing this? I know people in 10 years that still mooch off the LFS. Really??? How is this happening?

Who else has an opinion?

they advertise free water tests, maybe they shouldn't.

for some people who were in there every second day (like us) well lets just say we could have saved 200 bucks in test kits LOL

but seriously the only reason we didn't was because the LFS used hagen kits...
and we knew better than to trust them for salt water.

Steve

[Aquattro]

No Steve, I bought kits when I bought a tank. It's part of the required equipment.