Salifert KH/Alkalinity Test Kit

Salifert KH/Alkalinity Test Kit - the Salifert range are some of the best test kits available on the market, and some of the only test kits on the market, that I personally trust.

Designed to make taking a water sample and testing for the KH levels of your tank, simple and easy to do and understand.

It is important that you regularly test your tanks water parameters to ensure they are within the correct or your specific wanted ranges to know whether you need to start/increase or decrease any dosing of a KH buffer. (don't have time to test, see our other services!)

Calcium is not the only substance needed to form the skeletal material of corals and allow calcareous algae to grow. Carbonate and bicarbonate are also needed and these two substances can have a major effect on stabilising or buffering pH levels in the aquarium in the correct range of 8.1 to 8.4.

The total carbonate and bicarbonate concentration is also called alkalinity or carbonate hardness and for a stable system the alkalinity should not fluctuate by more than 5% from the optimum level of approx. 2.8 meq/L i.e a maximum fluctuation of 0.14 meq/L.

The Salifert test is sensitive enough to detect small changes in levels of alkalinity, measuring in steps of 0.1 meq/L and demonstrating a very sharp colour change.

Sufficient for roughly 100 to 200 tests