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At a glance
- Condition
- New
- Weight
- 16 oz
- Item Volume
- 30 ml
- Item Form
- Liquid, Tablet
- Item Type Name
- Water Tester
Features 3
- Handheld Tester
- Digital Display
- Measures: Free Chlorine (DPD), Total Chlorine (DPD), Bromine (DPD), pH, Alkalinity, Calcium Hardness and Cyanuric Acid (Stabilizer)
Description
How is this different from test strips? Instead of matching colors by eye, the ColorQ 2X reads the color for you with a dual-optic photometer and shows the exact number on a digital screen — no squinting, no guessing. Q2. What does it test? What does it test? Seven pool & spa factors: Free Chlorine, Total Chlorine, Bromine, pH, Total Alkalinity, Calcium Hardness, and Cyanuric Acid. Does it connect to my phone? Yes. It syncs over Bluetooth to the free LaMotte WaterLink Solutions app to store your results, track trends, and generate a custom treatment plan with exact dosages — so you know precisely what to add. How accurate is it? It uses a dual-optic photometer and is independently certified to NSF/ANSI/CAN 50 for pH, free & combined chlorine, and cyanuric acid. Does it use liquid or tablets, and can I get refills? Both — economical liquid reagents for chlorine/bromine and pH (144 tests each) plus TesTabs tablets for alkalinity, calcium hardness, and cyanuric acid (100 tests each). Refill reagent kits are available, so you're never stuck mid-season. Insta-TEST strips ColorQ 2x Pool 4 Kit ColorQ 2x Pro 7 Kit WaterLink Spin Touch
Specs 11
| Brand | LaMotte |
|---|---|
| Item Weight | 16 ounces |
| Item Volume | 30 ml |
| Item Form | Liquid, Tablet |
| Manufacturer | Lamotte |
| Volume | 30 ml |
| Brand Name | LaMotte |
| UPC | 637395474347 |
| Item Type Name | Water Tester |
| Model Number | 2086 |
| Part Number | 2086 |
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Top Amazon Reviews
Very accurate
This kit is perfect for older people whose eye sight isn’t what it used to be. No color guess work. It’s all digital & very easy to use
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2026 by Debbie Burton
Very solid and consistent!
So far this has been working very well for me! The traditional test strips are hard for me to read -- I'm a bit colorblind, it seems to depend a lot on lighting, and I can't quite tell whether it's the hue or saturation/brightness that I should be comparing. This one certainly takes a bit more time to master efficiently, but I love the digital readout for each measurement (FCL, TCL, pH, Alk, Ca-Hard, and CYA). My only small gripes are (a) I don't understand why the cap color matters for each test (I just follow the directions just in case it matters), and (b) for some of the caps, I can't seem to keep the vial sealed when I invert to mix the reagent, I often get a few loose drops falling.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2025 by Christopher Dellin
Expensive. Case, app, tubes, reader all very poorly designed.
I’ve used the Taylor FAS‑DPD kit for years and only tried the ColorQ because I needed new reagents and thought this “high‑tech” photometer might make life easier. Big mistake. Yes, it works. Yes, the readings seem accurate. But the design is shockingly bad for something this expensive. Tablet chemistry is a nightmare. The included “crusher” is useless. I had to buy a mortar and pestle just to run basic tests. The vials are tiny and flimsy. They barely fit in the case and blow over if you breathe near them. The squeeze bottle is laughably small. Not enough water to run a full test set and rinse anything. The case is NOT waterproof. One rainstorm soaked everything inside and destroyed the cardboard tablet boxes. The device has one button and a rigid test sequence. Overshoot a test? Start over. Want to skip bromine? Too bad. The app is awful. You have to log in every single time like you’re guarding state secrets. Instructions are a giant paper sheet. Easy to lose, easy to ruin. Nothing about this feels premium. Bottom line: Great idea, terrible execution. If you’re coming from a Taylor kit, this will feel like a downgrade in every way except “looking cool.” Save your money.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2026 by Wisconsin Gardener
Excellent, easy to use product!!
The pool testing kit is wonderful and SO EASY to use and get results from! Finally, a water tester that I can understand and dont have to jump thru hoops with to get readings!
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2026 by Sassy
Generally good
Overall this unit does a great job. It feels good to have nice digital numbers to reference. A couple complaints. 1. It does not give an accurate CYA number. I probably should have returned it for that reason. The number is always low when compared to the test at the pool shop. This is bad because you don’t want to pot too much stabilizer in the pool. I kept it because you only need to check CYA once maybe twice a season. I can go to the pool shop for that. Although I shouldn’t have to. 2nd. Clicking through the different tests is a pain when you get to bromine. I don’t do a bromine test. So when I try to skip it, it sometimes skips over PH, which I do need. Not a deal breaker. But requires a bit of careful button pushing. Lastly. I use this with my iPhone. Sometimes the phone will fall asleep during the process. And that makes you start all measurements over again. The way around this is to change your phone/screen setting to Never sleep. Just don’t forget to change it back or your battery will be toast quickly. So overall it’s good. I didn’t realize the CYA reading was not working correctly till long after my return window. So if a rep happens to see this, would love some advice on what to do about getting a good reading.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2022 by Keith
The best kit for the money out there.
I've used this kit on multifamily properties pools up to 45000 gallons. It's perfect iPad, heck, look at my pools using that product and they're always right on
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2026 by Amazon Customer
Awesome product
This product does an awesome job. So easy to use.
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2026 by RANDY HALE
Expensive. Inaccurate. Tedious. Misleading. Not returnable.
We’ve been pool owners over forty years and have used a variety of manual and automated test kits. We have a 25,000 gallon in ground pool. We had been using Leslie’s accublue automated system, but it locks customers into an ecosystem of expensive chemicals. The ColorQ system seemed like a good alternative without subscription fees. We also bought a strip based system to try that uses a cell phone app to interpret the colors. Compared to the other systems, ColorQ is many times the cost with no features to justify it. Free chlorine, total chlorine, alkalinity, and ph agree with the other systems, so why pay the premium for this one? Cyanuric acid test requires a two minute settling time during which the reader times out. Rather than having a recall memory, waking the unit requires restarting all the tests. Best to prep all the vials at the same time and let the two minutes elapse before beginning the test sequence. Even so, the CYA readings are nonsense (e.g. a CYA reading of 0 when using stabilized chlorine tabs while other systems show 150). The digital readout makes results appear precise, but the actual results are no more accurate than the other systems. Worse, the strip test system we tried uses a camera app to interpret the colors (using a provided known neutral gray background for reference and delivers equally precise appearing number results. That takes about 2 minutes total. The ColorQ system requires collecting a water sample in a bottle, adding a precise amount of the water to each vial, adding the preside number of drops or tablet chemicals to each vial, crushing the tablets, inverting vials, to mix, waiting 2 minutes for the CYA vial to settle, calibrating the reader with clear sample water, then inserting each vial in turn, skipping two tests for which neither chemicals nor instructions are provided, then clean up. It takes about 20minutes. Not fun unless you enjoyed high school chem lab with capillary pipettes. Oh, and make sure you use the right vial for each test, as they re not identical. For the price, you could expect at least a quality feel to the kit. The reader is cheap plastic with a cheap feeling actuator button (unlabeled) and the test vials are plastic as well. The kit does come with a generous supply of test chemicals, though. Should you be unhappy with the test kit, it is not returnable, even if the shipping box is never opened. Complete waste of money.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2023 by 94Q45T