Hanna Checkers That We Love and Ways We Messed up These Reef Tank Test Kits!

Whether it's the Hanna Alkalinity Checker, Hanna Calcium Checker, Hanna Nitrate Checker, Phosphate Checkers, or even the Hanna Thermometer...we have used them all and learned some valuable lessons we don't want you to repeat! Find out what those are and how to avoid them on your saltwater tank test kits.

Phosphate, Alkalinity, Calcium, Nitrate, Temp...Hanna has a checker for that!

There's over 20 Mistakes episodes we've made...talk about egg on our face!

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00:00 Mistakes-HannaCheckers
00:11 Not Storing Test Vials With RO Water
00:49 Not Opening The Reagent Correctly
01:28 Not Deciding If Your Low Range Or Ultra Low Range
02:09 Not Owning The Alkalinity & Phosphate Checker
03:49 Not Considering Diluting Your Alkalinity Test
04:25 Not Having The Right Expectations
05:26 Not Considering Hanna’s Thermometer
06:30 Not Considering That The Alkalinity Checker Could Be The Cheapest
07:08 Not Considering The Ammonia Checker
07:59 Not Getting Extra Reagent
08:32 Not Getting A Cleaning Cloth

[KoiRun]

Great tips. I like the one of dipping the vial in RO water before wiping. And ok I will buy the lint free cloth. String the vial in RO water is also a great idea 👍

[TofuInc]

As someone who is colorblind the Hanna checkers are really the only solution out there.

[juggalizzle]

I use the Hanna salinity checker which also has a thermometer. An excellent way to quickly and easily verify your refractometer and your thermo controller/probe

[emcsquardb]

Another excellent video - adding to it re: Hanna thermometer - it's also good for checking Apex temp probe accuracy. Trust me, after time they DO need to be checked and recalibrated.

[roelofmenkveld]

3 weeks a go i set up my first nano reef tank. Your videos are very helpfull

[MHoran]

When going from 1 reagent to the next, its always good to check the same sample against both. I usually know when I'm down to my last 3-5 test, which is when I'll usually break out the new reagent and see if there's a difference. I've never had a huge difference between the 2, but know afew reefers who have, which is why I always check just in case. You can call that tip 12 👉

[marcelrodriguez]

I have to test phosphates daily since my phosphates drop to 0 constantly. I always see you guys talking about high phosphates but i see some people struggling with the opposite lol

[rcsr]

I’m so glad I got a Hanna temp checker. My apex temp prob just recently started to creep up. It got to 3+ degrees above actual. It won’t stay calibrated. I’ll lower back to actual(using Hanna)but it only takes a day or so for it to creep back up. If I didn’t have my ink bird and Hanna to reference to I would have never known.
FYI ink bird and Hanna are only .1 degree different from each other.

[aquapuncture]

Thanks for the tips! And thanks for the awesome sale! 😍

[truereefkeeping]

I HATE trying to figure out if the color is one vs another most of them look exactly the same to me or they are so close I can’t really tell, and it always looks different in different light but witch light do I trust? This is why is use the checkers because when you think about it it’s actually MORE accurate since you don’t have to discern color differences you take that part of human error out of the equation

[jennanation]

I LOVE the url phosphate and alk! I dont chek calcium or mag as much as I should so was thinking of buying these for calcium and mg! I hate red seas test and hate titrating tests in general! How easy are the mag and calcium? I am surprised you didint recommend the hanna salinity checker! I love mine and it doubles as a temperature checker! It makes water changes so much easier and also matching the temp at the same time! I cant ever imagine going back to a refractometer!

[ecovaas]

Just put your bottles in the dishwasher! We at the lab do it also and it cleans the best than other methods!!

[nilamotk]

I just watched you rant on a recent video about calcium checker. You're using that microliter pipet wrong. You need the tip to go on it, and then you put the tip just under the surface of the water and push down to the first resistance level and draw back up. Water lever should hit the second line on the pipette tip. Then push down to the first and then second pressure level on the plumger to get every last bit out of the tip.

[xisotopex]

do the hanna checkers need to be calibrated before every use? they dont hold a calibration for some amount of time?

[paulbarker]

I have all the Hanna checks the biggest mistake I see people do is not checks the old reagent to the new reagent I seen one be of buy 1ppm

[lisariggio]

When I use my alk test, do I use the cuvet and draw up to 1 milliliters?

[BonesSaw]

Just bought one a day ago before sale. Hoping you honor the price difference

[jessegarcia]

These are great checkers but my goodness are the cuvettes fragile I bought the micro fiber cloths directly from hanna inst and they are scratching my cuvettes I've already bought two sets too replace others not very happy thinking of changing too salifert for testing

[jules]

How would you rate the thermomenter on the Salinity checker?

[oneshot]

I looked at the ammonia checker and noticed it’s “freshwater”. Do they make a saltwater ammonia checker or is there a way to convert the freshwater one to saltwater?