Hello everyone and welcome to Aqua Splendor my name is Nicolas Marion and if you
enjoy aquarium videos consider to subscribe when new technology come to
our industry I'm always looking for something that are quick and easy to use
Poseidon Flow Technologies a new company arrived with their Salinity Pen Plus
the goal of the Poseidon Pen is to measure the salinity in PPT the salinity
gravity and temperature in Celcius and Fahrenheit so let's do the unboxing and
check out what's inside so first we have the manual you can pause the video to
read if you need so we also have some sort of hook or something to hang the
Salinity Pen Plus+ and then we got what is the most important to my eyes a
calibration fluid which is set at 30 PPT salinity and if you ever spill it on a
table or you're running out for some reason you can always buy a new
one I think it's like five dollars and finally we get the Poseidon
Salinity Pen Plus it's still in wrap inside the bag which i'm going
to unwrap it
now something to pay closely attention is the tip of the prob is made out of
platinum metal so what it means is the electrode is very susceptible to
corrosion so make sure that you clean correctly the tip of the pen plus at the
back you can see there is a water resistance seal so you have two battery
there the CR 1632 battery they can hold 80 hours continuous uses so let's just
say that it can hold for a very long time I have no clue how long he can last
maybe two years who knows we'll see with times it took me a while to notice
it but there is a plastic protection on top of the unit you can just rip it off
and so don't be like your grandma that but that hold are there plastic
protection forever and then after you have three button you have the power
you have the Mode to make to change between PPT salinity temperature and you
can hold the mode for three seconds to switch between Celsius and Fahrenheit
the last one is the calibration mode which I will show in the next clip
all right so now the calibration step is one of the most important step to make
sure that your measurement tool is calibrated correctly so the calibration
fluid is set at 30 PPT the calibration step only take 10 second I think so the
first thing to do is just to Power on the Salinity Pen Plus, like that,
and just make sure to set the Mode to PPT after this just put your pen into
the calibration fluid and hold the calibration button for 10 seconds or at
least until you see the CAL meaning calibration is done and Voilà
that is pretty much it is that easy and that's the reason why I like to use that pen
all right so now it's time to see if I was a good boy so let's test my
aquarium to see what are the value so the first thing you just remove the cap
power On the button and what I'm doing right now is just I'm shaking the
Pen make sure there is no air bubble stuck into the probe tip so I'm gonna
switch the mode and there you go so 33 PPT is exactly pretty much
what I wanted so I'm happy with that and Salinity Gravity is 1.025
exactly what I wanted so my stuff is good
I'm a good boy so that now the last thing you need to do is make sure that
you rinse your pen into a fresh water
and that's it so now I'm just going to clean correctly the pen to make sure is
completely dry and you're done so I got this Poseidon Salinity Pen Plus+ since a month
and I'm extremely pleased with that it's so easy to use so
important to check your parameter of salinity and temperature and that Pen
just helped me to make sure that I'm always on the good level and the price
is fair I think it's 110 dollars u.s. and about the calibration
the manufacturer is telling that you should calibrate if we use but honestly
I haven't calibrate mine for at least two or three weeks and I didn't notice
any difference after so it's fair to say that you can use the unit without
calibrating for a little weeks and days but it's always a good thing to
calibrate your unit another thing I want to mention is the pen press is not
waterproof is water-resistant so make sure you don't wrap into your aquarium
and the last thing I want to mention is it
was designed in Canada assemble in North Korea... in South camera and
that's it so thank you for watching if you find this video useful for you
Like and if you have any question comment below I will do my best to
answer so yeah thank you very much and I'll see you the next video.