Beer Refractor

[farid2544]

I just bought a beer refractor on ebay. My refractor goes up to 1.120 SG and i noticed that aquarium refractors tend to top out at 1.070. Is there any reason why i can't use my beer reactor to test my reef tank? It looks the same as a saltwater refractor.

 

[pandora32]

I believe the beer one is calibrated differently than the ones for saltwater. Mine is calibrated/adjusted to be close to nsw. I didnt want to chance it and bought one meant for our tanks. Planning on buying a milwaukee one here pretty soon.

 

[IPisces]

Beer or Brewing reftactometers are for measuring the sugar content.
But, brewing refractometers and salinity refractometers are both for measuring specific gravity of a liquid. Its quite probable that they are the same, just different ranges. I would take it to an LFS and see if it matches up with theirs.

 

[farid2544]

Thank you guys, i will take it in and see if it matches up

 

[Cyril22]

I didnt want to chance it and bought one meant for our tanks. Planning on buying a milwaukee one here pretty soon.

 

[Holygral]

take it back and get the right equipment, how are you going to calibrate it? not worth the risk.