Ntlabs water test kit and DPD rapid tabs
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Testing my pond water parameters with Ntlabs multi test kit and DPD 4 rapid tablets use for chlorine test and installed a new gagged bluelabs guardian for constant TDS, TEMP, PH reads
DPD Rapid dissolving tablets -
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Ntlabs multi test kit -
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Bluelabs guardian -
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Thanks you for watching
Hi Your videos are a blessing.
I wake up every morning.
My head is banging I'm long a time heath suffer. Just watching one of your videos and listening to your voice. Makes my relax just for as
long as it lasts. It's enough for my head to settle. I must have watched all you videos over over and over again. I look out for you alert to come up so I can watch it the following morning. Thanks for helping with my head every morning and please 🙏 carry on posting 📫
I had my own pond but now I'm kept in a dingy old care home. They let me have my dog and a 5 gal tank but that's it. I wish I could have time to sit and feed some wonderful koi.
You will understand when you get old like me. (89) No-one wants a old fart around taking up their time.
Thank-you again your voice is so calm. 🐟🐟🐟🐟
Hi Keith, thank you very much you are ever so kind with your words, take care and all the best 👍🏻
you just reminded me I've got to get a new nt labs test kit cheers mate 👍👍👍
Your welcome mate 🤣👍🏻
Fish are looking mega bro 👌 loving the guardian definitely good to have a max/min on the pH 👌👍
Thanks bro 👍🏻
Quality 👌 Maybe in future a Finch Filtration Innovation System ♻ RO Unit (Small 1) looks like it fit nicely on wall near vyair. 😉 👍
Thanks mate, RO would be great for the future another thing on my wish list 🤣like you said right above the vyair 👍🏻take care
Great run through of everything. You need to press the top button (Units) on the guardian to read TDS, the light will be green next to TDS matey. Wish I had one, maybe one day but not this year. Have fun with all the new gear. Thanks for sharing. Cheers.
Thanks Simon, I possibly calibrate the bloody thing wrong with the conductivity, gonna calibrate again tomorrow will update you guys with the bakki showers plans, take care matey 👍🏻
@@just4koi143 You have probably calibrated it correct. You are just displaying the wrong unit, press the top "Unit button" and it will toggle through, when the green light is next to TDS leave it there and that will display your TDS matey. Can't wait for the new shower video. Cheers.
Thanks Simon👍🏻 great to have subs like you mate
Great video Jeff as always. Your filter house is becoming a gadget house :-) Love it. I need to research what conductivity is as I dont even understand the word :-)
Hi lau TDS is short for total dissolved solids which is a culmination of all the chemical ions dissolved in the water 💧.
They are mostly salts and minerals in solution in your ponds water column so not necessarily bad chemicals.
Having a calibrated probe in the water that measures this is another way or keeping an eye on your water quality this probe measures the conductivity of the total dissolved solids (TDS) and gives you a number as a reference.
So knowing what your source water is at the beginning will help you with your pond water as you use this to dilute whats in your pond.
Some people use reverse osmosis (RO) as their source water is so hard (a very high conductivity number).
It is believed by many that soft water produces youthful koi as it mimics the soft water of Japanese breeders.
I believe there are people online like Manky Sanke who have more detailed information about this subject.
I hope this helps in some way.
Thanks lau, inspector gadget 🤣🤣
@@just4koi143 haha, that's exactly that ☺️
@@Tom_Prendiville fabulous. Thank you Tom. Very useful. I had to translate the word first and now with your explanation, it all makes sense. That's great. Thank you again.
Good video Jeff, great test kits they are just keep an eye on the expiration date and the temps your store it at , nice one 👍👍😀😀blue lab ph seems a hell of a lot better than the seneye 👍👍👍
Thanks matey, wicked kit the bluelabs, have you decided on what drum you are going for?👍🏻
@@just4koi143 probably the draco drop in mate once I’ve saved enough pennies which will take a while 👍👍😀😀
Nice update the dpd rapid 4 should give you a reading straight away after two mins the test will turn a pink shade. I test through the declorinator then again test day after with the dpd 4stay safe 🙏🐟🐟🐟🙏
Thanks carol take care 👍🏻
Hi Jeff, that bluelabs monitor looks interesting, let us know how you get on with it,
Good simple test kit. I missed what your nitrAte level is at. You just probably didn't show it but with the NitrAte testing you have to shake bottle #1 vigorously for 30 seconds to dissolve the sediment at the bottom of the bottle that accumulates when the bottle has been sitting for long. If not shaken it may likely give you a false reading of zero. I'm going to enjoy watching that handy guardian set up of yours. Very cool.
Hi KoiRun, sorry matey I must of edited it out by mistake 🤦🏻♂️my bad but the nitrate was clear, made water changes yesterday after the video came out will do another test over the next few day👍🏻
No worries, catch you later.
My PH is always over 8 mate fish are good can’t seem to lower it at all 👍🏼👍🏼
Only way to keep it down would be RO which isn’t straight forward as it seems, thanks mate 👍🏻
7th 🤣
Jeff your conductivity is at 6 which seems almost impossible without using RO usually its higher out of the tap and climbs even higher in the pond due to feeding ect. Maybe it needs calibrating. Or maybe your water is the holy grail 🤣
Great update man
Thanks mate, I’ve calibrated the lot 2 or 3 days ago when I installed, I’ll calibrate again to see if it’s holy grail 🤣🤣🤣Take care mate👍🏻
@@just4koi143 I've never seen it so low that's all.
Most people who look for a super low tds are happy if the get to 80.
Let us know how you get on mate 👍🏼
Gonna bring out another video tomorrow on the bakki showers🙈I’ll calibrate and keep you guys posted 👍🏻
@@just4koi143 awesome dude 🤙🏽
It's hard to explain to people who can't see past the cost of using showers and the right (only) media.
The koi are completely different with the right filtration 👌🏼
@@Tom_Prendiville Tom, is the conductivity measuring tds?
Not happy, you're costing me money lol 😁, just ordered the guardian, getting a bit OCD, checking ph/kh
everyday after ph crash, think it's where I replaced soil in plant baskets, sucked all the kh out of the pond, ph/kh wasn't registering on my idip tester, everything OK now, 3 days dosing with bicarb. out of interest what tds reading have you got.
Sorry mate 🤣it’s a wicked kit to be fair just done all my test after having a ammonia spike everything how it should be after 1 water change which was bout 25% to 30% I didn’t even bother with the ph test it right there on display, my ph is around 8.6 to 8.1, btw I wanna say thank you for your advice on the upflow filter I’ve finally got it up and running, take care mate 👍🏻
@@just4koi143 thanks mate, guardian turned up today, fit it in a couple of days, curious what's your tds reading, give that up flow a couple of days, you'll be amazed what it collects.
@@marekskoipond9083 my TDS is 290, I am already amazed at what it’s pulled out over 1 night, let me know what your TDS is pls 👍🏻
@@just4koi143 that's not a bad tds reading you got, mine is 314 out of tap and 456 in the pond using tds pen, still got to wire up guardian, will let you know what that says, still got to watch your latest video, looking forward to it.
Oh dear 1st
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to be honest mate a ph of over 8 with any ammonia is worrying
I’ve done a water change around 20% the ammonia wasn’t a big spike obviously it’s not what it should be hopefully will have it all sorted with a couple of water changes and cutting out the feed, take care buddy 👍🏻