Salifert Nitrate Test Kit

Salifert Nitrate Test Kit

Salifert Nitrate Test Kit gives accurate and quick results with a total testing time of less than 3 minutes.

When an aquarium has insufficient regions deprived of oxygen (= anaerobic zones) or denitrification proceeds incompletely then nitrate will build-up.This can also happen in an aquarium where the biological loading on the system is causing an imbalance e.g. if there is excessive livestock for the aquarium volume or overfeeding is occurring.

A too-high nitrate concentration can result in unwanted algae growth and these might irritate corals / slow down coral growth.

The nitrate concentration in a proper functioning reef aquarium should preferably be lower than 1 mg/L. Fish-only aquariums would usually show much higher nitrate concentrations.

Most test kits use a procedure in which a certain part of nitrate is converted chemically into nitrite and is measured as such.

Once again, just as with nitrite testing, amine interference has a major impact on the measured value. If such an interference occurs concentrations much lower than actual will be measured.

The test kit’s range goes from a very low to a very high nitrate concentration (approx. 0.2 – 100 mg/L as total nitrate).

The Salifert Nitrate Test Kit can perform approx. 50 tests.

This test offers two ranges:

• Low range: 0.2 – 10 mg/L (ppm) as nitrate
• Medium range: 2 – 100 mg/L (ppm) as nitrate

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