The Hanna Nitrate Checker has long been considered missing from Hanna's line-up of pocket checkers which are used by many reef keepers for accurate easy testing of their reef aquarium. Now that the nitrate checker has finally appeared is it possibly too complicated for regular use?
Talk to any modern reefkeeper and very soon the subject of nitrate will arise. The bane of many a reefkeeper over the last thirty years, rising nitrate and ultimately uncontrollable nitrate levels have long been blamed for the browning of corals, and horrible, nuisance algae. But nitrate and its importance to the marine aquarium has now come full circle, and in three, recent back-to-back conversations with accomplished reefkeepers, all three complained that they didn’t have any nitrate, and were actively looking to create some!