FishArts.com

hydrometer dilemma

Home| Search | About
User Password
Register Now! Lost Password?

Marine Aquaria - Marine Reef aquaria. 

Bookmark this page:  YahooMyWeb Yahoo!  Google Google  Windows Live Favorites Windows Live  del.icio.us del.icio.us  digg digg  Add to Netscape Netscape
Subject Author Date
hydrometer dilemma Cindy 06-06-2006
Posted by Pszemol on June 11, 2006, 9:58 pm
Please log in for more thread options
> I hate the Coralife one anyway, I have to fill it and dump it about 3
> times to get the bubbles off, the Seatest is easier to use.

???
Your statements in this thread are like you were from a different world...
Are you having fun with us or something? It is just unreal... :-))

You have problems with water bubbles in a hydrometer kind
which is perfectly designed to minimize the effect of water rushing
in (by the usage of high dam and opening from the bottom)
but you do not have problem with the old style one, with the
water rushing in like crazy... Go figure!

> "They just don't make 'em like they used to...." :)

Exactly! They make them much better now :-))

Posted by Cindy on June 12, 2006, 2:46 am
Please log in for more thread options
 Pszemol wrote:
>> I hate the Coralife one anyway, I have to fill it and dump it about 3
>> times to get the bubbles off, the Seatest is easier to use.
>
> ???
> Your statements in this thread are like you were from a different world...
> Are you having fun with us or something? It is just unreal... :-))

YOU are just unreal. Did your mama forgot to teach you any manners??

I'm reporting my experience. I prefer the Seatest to the Coralife.
Hope that's okay with you.

> You have problems with water bubbles in a hydrometer kind
> which is perfectly designed to minimize the effect of water rushing
> in (by the usage of high dam and opening from the bottom)
> but you do not have problem with the old style one, with the
> water rushing in like crazy... Go figure!
>
>> "They just don't make 'em like they used to...." :)
>
> Exactly! They make them much better now :-))

YOUR opinion....

Posted by Pszemol on June 12, 2006, 8:48 am
Please log in for more thread options
>> ???
>> Your statements in this thread are like you were from a different world...
>> Are you having fun with us or something? It is just unreal... :-))
>
> YOU are just unreal. Did your mama forgot to teach you any manners??

???

> I'm reporting my experience. I prefer the Seatest to the Coralife.
> Hope that's okay with you.

Sure it is... I am also "okay" with a person not measuring *any* tank water
parameters whatsoever but at the same account being extremally concerned
with the lab-grade acuracy of measuring salinity :-)))))) You are funny! :-))

>> You have problems with water bubbles in a hydrometer kind
>> which is perfectly designed to minimize the effect of water rushing
>> in (by the usage of high dam and opening from the bottom)
>> but you do not have problem with the old style one, with the
>> water rushing in like crazy... Go figure!
>>
>>> "They just don't make 'em like they used to...." :)
>>
>> Exactly! They make them much better now :-))
>
> YOUR opinion....

Good luck with your tanks!

Posted by Wayne Sallee on June 12, 2006, 11:37 am
Please log in for more thread options
 That hydrometer design is silly. I always tell people to
turn the hydrometer upside down, insert it into the
aquarium, and then turn it up allowing the air to bubble
up. The whole idea of trying to keep from getting your
hands wet is silly.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets
Wayne@WaynesPets.com


Pszemol wrote on 6/11/2006 9:58 PM:
>> I hate the Coralife one anyway, I have to fill it and dump it about 3
>> times to get the bubbles off, the Seatest is easier to use.
>
> ???
> Your statements in this thread are like you were from a different world...
> Are you having fun with us or something? It is just unreal... :-))
>
> You have problems with water bubbles in a hydrometer kind
> which is perfectly designed to minimize the effect of water rushing
> in (by the usage of high dam and opening from the bottom)
> but you do not have problem with the old style one, with the
> water rushing in like crazy... Go figure!
>
>> "They just don't make 'em like they used to...." :)
>
> Exactly! They make them much better now :-))

Posted by Pszemol on June 12, 2006, 1:17 pm
Please log in for more thread options
> That hydrometer design is silly. I always tell people to
> turn the hydrometer upside down, insert it into the
> aquarium, and then turn it up allowing the air to bubble up.

If the air bubbles were there to stay stuck to the needle
than this method would not work anyway...
Properly seasoned needle (fully wet for couple of hours)
does not attract air bubbles.

> The whole idea of trying to keep from getting your
> hands wet is silly.

But it works - at least in the case of Coralife "Deep Six".
Water opening is on the bottom, so you are not getting
only surface water sample, like you do with any other
kind of hydrometer (i.e. Seatest) but sample comes from
the six-inches deep water column.
As long as you collect water slowly, the way water is
sliding down the wall and not causes foaming you will
get a proper reading with no bubbles stuck to the needle.

Similar ThreadsPosted
Instant Ocean Hydrometer May 5, 2005, 12:21 am

Contact Us | Privacy Policy

XML SitemapXML Sitemap