Good Testing Kits?

[capescuba]

What's a good suggestion on test kits nowadays? I'm spinning up a full reef, hoping to lean more towards SPS so suggestions would be great to be prepped.

Thanks.

 

[kinetic]

Good time to be spinning up a new tank. Holiday deals are awesome right now.

I just started back up this year again too, and learned quite a bit about all the new toys. So far, Red Sea and Salifert are still pretty solid test kits. BulkReefSupply has some pretty good deals on Salifert (and a lot of other vendors too).

I went with:
Ammonia: Red Sea
Nitrite: Salifert
Nitrate: Salifert
Phosphates: Hanna ULR checker
Alk / Ca / Mg: Red Sea pro kit

 

[Ibn]

What I've been using:

Alk/Ca/Mg/No3 - Salifert
Phosphate: Hanna ULR checker

Also have K and phosphate kit from Salifert, but haven't touched those in awhile.

 

[yellojello]

Alk - Hanna Checker, previously Salifert which is also backup or double check
CA/Mag - Salifert
Salinity - Switch between Refractometer and Milwaukee Digital

 

[capescuba]

Thanks everyone

 

[Julius Chen]

I suspect my tank has phosphate issue. Should i get a hanna phosphate checker or the ultra low checker?

 

[Ibn]

The phosphate checker is always available used, but the ULR is never. Go with the ULR.