Triton Water test results

My calcium was also very low. Even lower than yours and also use salifert.

 

I'm going to have to watch this. Intrigued on how it works out! J, did you try another test kit? Red Sea is kind of expensive, but fairly easy to use. Curious if there is a significant discrepancy between Triton, Salifert, and RS.

 

Hmm... I don't have them at the moment either, but probably will eventually. No need to monitor my calcium quite yet, as I'm coralless! Still curious though.

 

I use Salifert for Calcium (don't have Red Sea) and I don't remember seeing a large discrepancy on my Triton results. I will go back through my notes when I get the chance to verify. I need to get another sample sent in though as it has been about 6 months since I sent in my last sample.

 

I also found an interesting thread on Reef2Reef related to this topic. They compared a variety of home test kits with the results from two labs (Triton and AWT). Specific to Calcium they had:

Red Sea: 470
Elos: 470
Nyos: 550
Salifert: 470
API: 500
AWT A: 420
AWT B: 400
Triton A: 463.5
Triton B: 461.10

Yes, they sent in two samples to both Triton and AWT... that's dedication to the hobby! But in their test they did not see a big divergence between Red Sea, Salifert, or Triton.

 

Wow... I just looked back at my results from April and had the opposite experience. My Salifert calcium test indicated 390ppm while Triton came back at 458ppm. Mg was also way off with my Salifert kit.. I measured 1380 ppm while Triton had 1467.

I measured PO4 (Hanna) at .02, Triton had .01
I measured K (Red Sea) at 344, Triton had 341
Does Triton not have an alkalinity test?

 

Ill have to check Jeanette on my calcium measurement from triton and ill see if can still find water Salifert said on that sample. I'll also check to see on my Red Sea test. I think it's still good. You know I use Salifert primarily but sometimes RS to cross-reference. Ill get back with you asap.

 

My Triton test was somewhat close. It was 20ppm difference from red sea. But that was like a year ago

 

My RS test is expired so ... I was 2 ppm more with Salifert than Triton on my CA test. I would adjust to Triton and get a different test if need be.

 

I use salifert for calcium and occasionally a redsea test kit I still have. The redsea is always slightly higher than the salifert by about 15-20ppm. The Triton test showed about 25ppm higher than what my salifert reads. It did the same thing when I tested with Triton about a year ago. I assume the triton is more accurate unless the transport and delay in test affects accuracy somehow.

And I'll add, Ive always thought the Salifert test was a bit prone to variations. The powder you add with the spoon is never precise, or that 2nd bottle of drops you put in. The drops are impossible to get uniform in size and sometimes an extra one falls in unnoticed.

 

I actually use the Seachem test kit for calcium and my testing was close to 400 and it came back as 411 from Triton.

 

Just sent my Triton sample out yesterday. What kind of a turnaround time did you all experience?

 

I did parallel tests on NO3, PO4, Ca, alk, Mg, salinity, I2, Fe, and K. Should be interesting to see how they line up. If I recall though, Triton doesn't test alk, salinity, or NO3. Is that still the case?