PRO-LAB Water Bacteria Test Kit BA110 - Pool Test Kit

Easy to use. We have a well so water quality can change. This product gives us peace of mind.

Works great.

Good for a simple test without spending a lot of money. Instructions are a bit confusing at first, as they seem to guide you towards sending it off to a lab for a big fee. But, you can do it yourself if all you are interested in is: are there any bacteria in the water, and approximately how much. You won't know what kind unless you send it to the lab. I had no bacteria, so that's all I needed to know.

Excellent but appears to be limited to e-coli bacteria. Which is OK for well water.

I did not opened it. In order to test your water you need to send it to a lab. So I decided to return it to Walmart. Bc I have a well, and I live in farmland I need to test my water time to time I do not have time to send it to a lab a wait for a response.

While a good value to establish the presence of bacteria, it does not differentiate as to types of bacteria. Sole purpose is to reveal ecoli, which it apparently does well.

It seemed like a good idea, but it just did not work. The sample collector siphon is not being clearly marked how much is full, when mixed with the chemical, it never became hardened in the petri dish, and it was difficult to understand the results. The instructions included an illustration of what some vague results indicting bacteria may look like. The incubation period and potential resulting changes was vague. It all boiled down to you really had to mail it to the lab for results. I was seeking to avoid the lab or I would have just gone to the lab. It did, however include mailing envelope with postage. My sample never "dried" enough to mail it even if I wanted to. I threw it out and went to the lab.

It appears it didn't function. I received NO results. My water must be PURE.

My test didn't work. My petri dish had some sort of film on the inside of it, I'm not sure if this was there to help the solution set up or if the dish had been contaminated in some way, but when I added the solution (mixed with the tap water I was trying to test) it was supposed to set up within an hour. Mine didn't. I waited 48 hours to see if I had any bacteria present but there's nothing, just this solution that never set up. I don't trust that my kit worked at all. I have well water that I test every few years, I'm not sure which kits I've used in the past but I had a lot more confidence in them than this. Had I known I was going to have to conduct a science experiment with a petri dish I would have chosen a different test kit. With this kit there's an optional service of sending the petri dish in the mail and having the manufacturer's lab test it for $40. I think my kit is contaminated or expired and can't be accurately read in any lab.

How do use this product one time before in the summer and it worked I ordered two more in the winter time and I do believe they froze in my mailbox and did not work for me