merkurmaniac
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Turns out it was my test kit that was chronically sucky. I bought a salifert test kit for alkalinity and tested my water. 9.6.. cool. I went back to the old test kit that I had been using, and it tested only about 7 dKh. Aha...
See, I had been concerned about a low alkalinity reading for a real long time, but the corals seemed to be doing quite well. I have a dosing pump and it worked fine as long as I didn't let the solutions run out. I had begun to additionally add a drop or five whenever I would think about it, but now it looks like I don't need to.
The salifert test kit comes with a 6.9dKH reference test solution. I used their dropper and tested it and got 7.0 dKh. I busted out the old test kit and got around 5 dKh. The date on the bottle was fairly recent from what I can tell. Its going in the trash. Reference solutions are nice.
Big thanks to Soymilk who added this to his group buy and was patient while I worked out a time to go by and visit him.
Richard
See, I had been concerned about a low alkalinity reading for a real long time, but the corals seemed to be doing quite well. I have a dosing pump and it worked fine as long as I didn't let the solutions run out. I had begun to additionally add a drop or five whenever I would think about it, but now it looks like I don't need to.
The salifert test kit comes with a 6.9dKH reference test solution. I used their dropper and tested it and got 7.0 dKh. I busted out the old test kit and got around 5 dKh. The date on the bottle was fairly recent from what I can tell. Its going in the trash. Reference solutions are nice.
Big thanks to Soymilk who added this to his group buy and was patient while I worked out a time to go by and visit him.
Richard
