orxe87
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Has anyone used the JBL SiO2 test kit and got sensible results?
I don't really like testing (either the philosophy or the practicality of it) preferring to see how things are doing with plants and fish as a better guide to water quality, but have a test kit just to be able to check if noticing something is out of balance. I was (very!) bored this evening so thought I'd test my tap water for SiO2, which is a test I've not used before. No diatoms left in my tank so I was expecting a low or zero result - it was just for fun(!) really. Surprisingly, it came back a deep, deep blue, which is nowhere along the yellow to dark green of the test chart for SiO2. I re-ran it three times thinking I'd made a mistake, but no, it's just simply not remotely in the correct colour spectrum.
Anyone know if that test is susceptible to other things in the water, or to contamination somehow? Not really a problem either way, just curious if I have a duff test kit...
Thanks!
I don't really like testing (either the philosophy or the practicality of it) preferring to see how things are doing with plants and fish as a better guide to water quality, but have a test kit just to be able to check if noticing something is out of balance. I was (very!) bored this evening so thought I'd test my tap water for SiO2, which is a test I've not used before. No diatoms left in my tank so I was expecting a low or zero result - it was just for fun(!) really. Surprisingly, it came back a deep, deep blue, which is nowhere along the yellow to dark green of the test chart for SiO2. I re-ran it three times thinking I'd made a mistake, but no, it's just simply not remotely in the correct colour spectrum.
Anyone know if that test is susceptible to other things in the water, or to contamination somehow? Not really a problem either way, just curious if I have a duff test kit...
Thanks!