This Salifert Nitrate Profi test kit will provide around 50 tests of nitrates levels within your fish tank. Nitrates tend to build over time in an aquarium, particularly if you’re water change routine is not maintained – building to toxic levels. Regularly testing for Nitrate will allow you to confirm if your keeping up to date with your water changes.
When there are insufficient areas of a tank which are deprived of oxygen (anaerobic zones) or denitrification is not taking place properly, nitrate will build up. This can also happen in an aquarium where the biological loading on the system is causing an imbalance e.g is there is excessive livestock for the aquarium volume or over feeding is occurring.
The build up of nitrate can result in unwanted algae growth and the slowing down of coral growth.
The nitrate concentration in a reef aquarium should be lower than 1 mg/L, although fish only aquariums would usually have a higher concentration.
Just as with nitrite, many nitrate test kits are prone to amine interference which can make the levels of nitrate appear much lower than they actually are.
The Salifert test kit does not suffer from such interference and gives accurate and quick results with a total testing time of less than 3 minutes.
The test kits range goes from a very low to a very high nitrate concentration (approx. 0.2 – 100 mg/L as total nitrate).
Sufficient for 50 tests
