salt water test kit and update

[coraltime]

ok first off thanks for the help. So far i have gotten 25 pounds of live rock and some live sand and a piease of coal with a mushroom and snail in the tank now, but my main ? is what is a good salt water test kit that is not to exenexpensive and which web site is a good one to order it from
later, coraltime

[peege]

Test kits are not an area you want to skimp on. Get cheap, unreliable kits and you could pay for it with all your livestock.

Salifert is a good type of kit. Accurate and not very expensive.

[ThingsReef]

I like the Hagen test kit (calcium, nitrite, alkalinity, ammonia, nitrate, iron, phosphate). It's like 60 bucks for the whole kit. I'm not good with colors and I can read them well on this one. I have a salifert low range nitrate kit and it's good also. The only test I've heard of being in question on the Hagen is the phosphate test.