Finally! A useable strontium kit. By Lindsey on 9/9/12
Lindsey would recommend this product to a friend
Love this kit. Started testing for and dosing strontium about a year ago after a conversation with a LFS owner. The first test kit I bought was the Seachem Strontium kit. The directions were absolutely incomprehensible and the packaging was a nightmare. Seriously, I took a full year of college chemistry with labs and still had absolutely no idea where to start with the instructions.
So I was a bit discouraged. Found this Salifert one while searching the internet, and it is so much more useable. It does take time, plan on a good half hour. But it does work. The first time I tested two of my tanks I got 0ppm. So I started adding strontium.
My stonies started growing like crazy, calcium consumpion doubled, and the green marbled mushrooms that had just never done very well suddenly colored up and started spreading. They had spent a year being three little muddy colored mushrooms existing on the substrate. They had quickly returned to the beautiful mint green they had been when purchased and they were rapidly spreading up the rock. Now there are easily about forty of them.
I currently have the dosing dialed in pretty well and only test about every six weeks. One note on Sr dosing: at least in my case it has hugely reduced the need for added magnesium, so be careful to check both frequently at first to avoid overdosing Mg.