在多年来，海洋水族馆享有的所有进步中，对水族馆水的一般测试一直是改进和发展中最停滞的领域之一。如果您在家中测试了礁石水族水的化学反应，那么几十年来，您基本上就进行了相同的颜色更改和滴定测试，这些方法已成为测量硝酸盐，磷酸盐，碱度和钙数十年的方法。
Water pumps have gotten smarter, more powerful and more efficient. Various filters, skimmers and reactor designs perform like a dream. Meanwhile reef aquarium lighting technology has become downright futuristic! On the other end of the spectrum, home water testing is essentially stuck in the eighties. So why haven’t we seen the same kind of improvements to water testing that every other segment of the aquarium hobby has enjoyed?
It goes without saying that the quality, accuracy and precision of our aquarium water test kits有improved a lot; the reagents are easier to handle, color changes are easier to see and the color scales are much easier to compare. But all in all, we’re still talking about the practically identical chemical reactions, just better made.
When I started在职的in the marine aquarium hobby in the mid nineties, color changing and titration test kits is what we used to measure everything in our aquarium water. However even back then colorimeters were available, but research-grade pricing made them just a twinkle in our eye of what the future could hold. Names like Hach and LaMotte would make aquarium chemistry nerds swoon at the thought of ever being able to use a ‘water testing computer’.
Plenty of various electronic aquarium water test kits have been released in the last few years, but when these are regularly used, it is alongside conventional water tests, not the norm. However in the last couple of years, we’ve seen a bigger push than ever to help aquarium hobbyists get increasingly more accurate, precise, and especially more affordable electronic water testing solutions.
There are now more options for electronically testing your water than ever before, and things seem to be accelerating on the frontier of home colorimetry. At it’s most basic,密尔沃基和Hanna两者都为基本参数提供小型手动检查器，例如磷酸盐，钙，pH值等。欧洲的水族馆系统释放了SeaTest Control Systemwhich uses a general electronic probe, andJBL的Proscanmeasures aquarium water with a smartphone camera.
Stepping things up a bit, theELOS COLLIMETER 2.0和IDIPboth work alongside a smartphone application to make it really easy to control and log tests. And then we have the塞内耶和思维之路启用网络的水族馆监视器，允许用户在云中实时查看其水族馆水化学反应。
今天，为礁石业余爱好者制作的新的电子水测试设备暗示了将来对我们来说可能是什么。所有这些产品都有自己的位置，每个产品都有不同的优势和劣势。思维杂志特别诱人，因为想象一下，如果前进的创新能够建立类似Mindstream Aquarium Water Monitor的东西今天，想象一下，将来还会出现哪些新公司来建立新型的“思维之旅”。
我们认为，我们终于处于从滴和滴定测试中过渡的风口浪尖，水族馆水测试将是一个非常有趣的观看空间。你同意还是反对？让我们在评论中知道您的想法，尤其是您在新一代家庭比色表测试设备方面的经验。
