Water Test Kits and Meters

API's Pond Care range is one of the best lines on the market today. The Master Liquid Test Kit is not an exception, testing for pH, Ammonia, Nitrite and Phosphate it is able to give an acurate reading of your pond water.

Blagdon's Koi and Pond Master Test Kit is a good starter testing kit for all Koi and Garden Ponds. Testing pH, Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate this kit gives a good and accurate reading of your pond water and supplies an easy to follow guide of the parameters needed for a safe and successful pond.

Tetra's Water Test Set tests for the big three; pH, Ammonia and Nitrite. These building blocks of the Nitrification process are vital for the health of your pond and the fish within and should be tested with regularity.

The Pondlab 200 Multi-test Kit provides over 200 tests of 6 water parameters (pH, GH, KH, Nitrite, Nitrate, and Ammonia) with full instructions, integral test tube rack for ease of use, optimum levels and suggestions for correction

NT Labs Ammonia Test Kit.

Any nitrite present in the pond will be very damaging to the health of the fish. Toxic nitrite can build up in ponds where there are insufficient beneficial filter bacteria to deal with the total waste from all the fish in the pond. This situation can arise in new ponds, when new fish are added, when the filter bacteria have been disrupted (e.g. during cleaning), or during accidental mis-dosing of pond medications.

Oxygen is essential for the fish, plants and filter bacteria of your pond or aquarium. The concentration of dissolved oxygen in the water can easily drop to levels that are dangerous to the fish by causing hypoxia stress.

Pond fish prefer the pH of the water to be between 7 and 8. Fluctuations outside these values can cause stress to the fish. If the water becomes too acid or alkaline the fish soon die. It is important to regularly test the pH, as new ponds can occasionally rise in pH, and older ponds tend to acidify over time. Also check the pH in the morning and evening as daily fluctuations are common, especially in heavily planted or algae infested ponds.

NT Labs Hardness Test Kit allows for you to test your ponds KH (carbonate hardness) and GH (general hardness) levels.

Nitrate is produced by the beneficial bacteria in the pond and filters as they break down the fish’s toxic waste products (ammonia and nitrite). Nitrate is not toxic to pond fish, but excessively high levels can affect their reproduction.