[bucket brigade]

What exactly is 1ml considered in a Salifert syringe?
Example #1?
Example #2?

 

[Hop]

Neither. It's from the other end

 

[Hop]

Technically the first one is right. You dont' worry about the waterline, just the plunger.

 

[dv3]

Technically the first one is right. You dont' worry about the waterline, just the plunger.

+1 ....do you have the plastic tip on there ...i get about twice the air thats in yours

 

[bucket brigade]

no yellow plastic tip.

instructions say to begin by drawing 4ml of your tank water & put in test-tube.....i didnt know if you account for the air-bubble or not.

so i'm guessing Example #1 is correct. you always read the black line on the plunger & IGNORE the air-bubble.

 

[whatevva]

no yellow plastic tip.

instructions say to begin by drawing 4ml of your tank water & put in test-tube.....i didnt know if you account for the air-bubble or not.

so i'm guessing Example #1 is correct. you always read the black line on the plunger & IGNORE the air-bubble.

That is not the correct syringe for drawing tank water. There should be a 5 ml that was supplied with the kit. That syringe in your picture is 1 ml and used for the test solution

 

[bucket brigade]

There should be a 5 ml that was supplied with the kit. That syringe in your picture is 1 ml and used for the test solution

....then I got "jipped"

the only syringe in the test box was the 1ml syringe. i guess i'll need to either find/buy one -or- rinse the 1ml syringe out before dipping into the test solution.

gee whiz... with me, its always something :-(

 

[Gabriel]

i have a Seachem test kit but the same syringe is in it. i did not know if that the bubble mattered or not. but i all ways got rid of it by taking in a little bit of the solution the pull the plunger down all the way (not out) then flicking the syringe till all the air is out. push the plunger back up until the soultion comes out a tiny bit they insert syringe in solutuion bottle and draw required amount. and there you go no bubble.

 

[dv3]

you shouldn't have a bubble when you draw your test water ...just when you use your test solution due to the plastic tip

 

[Reeftanker3295]

Yea my test kit came with 6 glass tubes that have a 5 ml mark on them and a plastic cap.

 

[dv3]

Yea my test kit came with 6 glass tubes that have a 5 ml mark on them and a plastic cap.

thats not salifert ...the marks on those glass tubes aren't very accurate

 

[luther1200]

I believe you only want the air in there when you are performing the titration with the plastic tip on.