Kit instructions

The instructions, linked in the drop-down menus below, are designed to guide you through the steps required to successfully use each kit. Use kits to take your sample, then store and transport it. It is important to be familiar with the relevant kit instructions, before using the kits to take your samples.

Kits can be used in any country, unless otherwise specified.

Useful links

Please recycle locally or return to NatureMetrics. Instructions here.

Get the very best results possible. Read our guide to avoiding inconclusive results.

Using our single species (qPCR) tests and sampling in the UK, Canada or USA? Find out the best time of year to survey using our sampling calendars.

Find information about surveying ponds, lakes, rivers, streams, estuaries, seas and oceans, plus info on control samples and avoiding contamination in our advice note.

Aquatic (freshwater and estuarine / marine water)

Health and safety information: Aquatic Kits and Aquatic Bacterial Kits.

AQUATIC KIT

AQUATIC KIT FOR PERSITALTIC PUMPS

AQUATIC KIT FOR THE DOT-NM AUTOSAMPLER (x9 FILTERS)

AQUATIC KIT MAXI (X2 FILTERS) FOR PERISTALTIC PUMPS

AQUATIC KIT x2 FILTERS (MAXI)

BACTERIAL AQUATIC KIT

BACTERIAL AQUATIC KIT FOR PERISTALTIC PUMPS

Soil

Health and safety information: Soil & sediments Kits.

SOIL KIT – PRESERVATION BUFFER (outside UK & EU+)

SOIL KIT – PRESERVATION BUFFER (UK and EU+)

SOIL KIT – COLD STORAGE (outside UK & EU+)

SOIL KIT – COLD STORAGE (UK & EU+)

UK: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland; EU+: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland.

Marine Sediment

Health and safety information: Marine Sediment Kits.

MARINE SEDIMENT KIT – PRESERVATION BUFFER

MARINE SEDIMENT KIT – COLD STORAGE

Estuarine & Mangrove Sediment

The type of kit you receive depends on whether you are sampling within the UK & EU+* or outside of this area. Please see the instructions for the relevant marine sediment kit (in the section above) for more information. Regionally specific instructions are detailed on the instructions. (*See 'Soil' section above for list of countries included in UK & EU+.)

Great Crested Newt (GCN)

Health and safety information: Great Crested Newt (GCN) Kit

Great Crested Newt (GCN) eDNA kit instructions

Invertebrate Tissue

Health and safety information: Invertebrate Tissue Kit

Instructions for returning samples from outside the UK

TISSUE KIT

Barcoding

BARCODING KIT

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