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Post by theamlinals on Feb 18, 2018 20:18:39 GMT -5
I'm sorry but there's no way that 10 & 20 are different colours of orange, and 40 & 80 are different colours of red... How am i supposed to keep track of things if i can't tell the colours apart? Can you guys seriously tell a difference between these colours??  |
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Post by phish on Feb 18, 2018 22:42:07 GMT -5
Im red green colour blind so i cant bebof any help here, lol
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Post by theamlinals on Feb 19, 2018 8:19:20 GMT -5
Im red green colour blind so i cant bebof any help here, lol Lol. It genuinely wouldnt matter. Might even help. |
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Post by phish on Feb 19, 2018 17:50:35 GMT -5
Im red green colour blind so i cant bebof any help here, lol Lol. It genuinely wouldnt matter. Might even help. The 5 and 10 look the same. The 40 and 80 look the same. Me thinks something is wrong. |
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Post by theamlinals on Feb 19, 2018 17:53:57 GMT -5
Lol. It genuinely wouldnt matter. Might even help. The 5 and 10 look the same. The 40 and 80 look the same. Me thinks something is wrong. At least i'm not just imagining it... |
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Post by phish on Feb 19, 2018 17:56:01 GMT -5
Maybe its just their way of saying... 5-10ppm, time for a water change. 40-80ppm, what the hell, are you trying to kill your fish, do a water change already!!
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Post by gabor129 on Feb 19, 2018 18:14:50 GMT -5
There is definitely something not right! That’s better be under warranty still!
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Post by theamlinals on Feb 19, 2018 18:41:17 GMT -5
Ok so i'm really not crazy, yours don't look like this?
Do you guys use the API freshwater master test kit thingie that everybody seems to recommend?
And your nitrate chart doesnt have these double twins?
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Post by theamlinals on Feb 19, 2018 18:44:34 GMT -5
There is definitely something not right! That’s better be under warranty still! Would be super swell if i could remember which store i bought it at. Lol. I'm 90 percent sure it was Aqua Animania, but i've been circling back and forth to each store multiple times, looking at fish trying to decide what to get. I was trying to buy a little something at each store to be fair until i picked a favourite.  |
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Post by theamlinals on Feb 19, 2018 18:51:28 GMT -5
Maybe its just their way of saying... 5-10ppm, time for a water change. 40-80ppm, what the hell, are you trying to kill your fish, do a water change already!! Lol, i know! I think that's why i didnt notice it the first time i used it, they were low so i just looked at the first colour and said cool. Then the next time it was the next orange and i was like well which one is it, they look the same but i was like oh well, either way it's pretty low and i'm doing a water change anyway. But this time it was red. And i was like which red? This is stupid! Oh well either way it's bad. But i did a 50% water change and today its the same damn red!! So i guess the first one was 80 and this one is 40? I Guess... |
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Post by defiantk on Feb 19, 2018 18:55:37 GMT -5
You look at it under sunlight or a white led? Thats how ive had to check mine
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Post by theamlinals on Feb 19, 2018 19:21:53 GMT -5
You look at it under sunlight or a white led? Thats how ive had to check mine Both yes, at first i thought it had to just be the lighting. But the change in lighting didnt seem to make it less "the same" |
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Post by phish on Feb 19, 2018 21:52:35 GMT -5
My guess is that those cards fade over time so the colours look washed out from sitting on the shelf. They probably don't look much different hot off of the printing press but after the colours wash out, it's impossible to differentiate between them. Regardless, you are dealing with yellow = OK orange = caution red=critical  |
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Post by theamlinals on Feb 19, 2018 22:14:51 GMT -5
I now think there definitely must have been a defect on some of the prints. I did a little googling and found several conversations online about other people describing the exact same situations as me. I saw a picture of other people's charts and it was subtle sure but you could tell them apart - the 80 was a little more pink almost than the 40, and the 10 & 20 oranges were slightly different from each other. I get that i can guideline from mine - orange is not good, red is bad - but its quite frustrating as it defeats the purpose of paying for a test kit expecting to know exactly what's going on in my tank. I might as well have gone with the strips if i wanted a ballpark that might be off by 40 or so. I was already cranky that some of my bottles came with messed up crooked tops Check out this pic i took when i first opened the kit.  |
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Post by phish on Feb 19, 2018 22:38:44 GMT -5
I know, it's frustrating to spend so much money on something and find out it's nearly useless. I wish the digital test kits with the probes were affordable so we wouldn't have to mess with this archaic chemistry experiment every time we want to test the water.
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