HELP: Can’t figure out how to use Salifert calcium Ca profi test

[pweezy42]

So I’ve been using api tests for a yr now and decided to start with some other test and ordered the salifert CA and KH/ALK tests and I can’t figure out what to do with the calcium test and no videos are equal to what came in my kit. When I follow the instructions I use the entire syringe of a-2 reagent and it never changes color?
Any help?

 

[pweezy42]

Now if I fill the syringe again how it was the first time and flip it to read once it turned blue it shows .85 and my calcium would be 75? But api is reading around 420

 

[helmsreef]

The new kit requires you do dump .60 of CA2 into the testing vile. It will turn pink. You then use the remainder of the syringe with CA2 into the vile like you would on the earlier kits. It should slowly run back into blue. That is the number you go off of. They essentially got rid of the second step which was previously to mix CA1 powder, and at 10ml of CA2 and they use CA3 to get your reading. Not sure why as I have had the old instructions ingrained in my brain.

 

[pweezy42]

So with what I did how would I figure out the calcium? Or Am I supposed to put the .6 in and then refill the syringe?

 

[helmsreef]

No do not refil the syringe, just make sure the syringe is filled properly and the you added a proper level filled scoop already to your test water. Release .6 of the CA2 into the vile, you should still have. 4 in the syringe. Swirl the water around now with the powder. 6ml of CA2. Once it turns pink, then slowly start adding the remainder of .4ml of CA2.

 

[pweezy42]

Yes I did that but then used all of the remaining in the syringe before it turns blue, to turn blue I have fill the syringe to use another .15 of Ca-2 before it turns blue. So would that mean my calcium is 415?

 

[helmsreef]

If you are emptying the syringe and it doesnt turn pink to blue than your calcium is above 500

 

[pweezy42]

Yikes, api read 420, my dKH on both tests are the same. I guess I need to figure this calcium out. Originally I thought I was way too low

 

[Mark Goode]

I could never get mine to work either. The instructions are straightforward, so unless I'm really stupid I wasn't doing it wrong. I finally threw it away and bought a Red Sea kit instead.

 

[pweezy42]

I could never get mine to work either. The instructions are straightforward, so unless I'm really stupid I wasn't doing it wrong. I finally threw it away and bought a Red Sea kit instead.

I’m thinking about the same already lol, well I was looking at Hannah but heard they are tough to use as well