t5Nitro
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Are these reliable test kits?
Normally I've been dosing alk and Ca every morning in the tank.
I decided to get out the test kits to check what the levels were at since I hadn't done it in a while.
So here are three days worth of testing:
Ca: 450 - dKh: 10
Ca: 440 - dKh: 9
Ca: 435 dKh: 9
Calcium drops a little bit but the alk doesn't do much. I was doing 1 milk cap full of alk and 2 milk caps of Ca daily on randy's two part.
The test kits aren't that old. They date 2010 on them. Maybe my tank just doesn't use it that often where I don't need to dose daily, but I have been dosing daily for weeks/months like that with no problems. Just seems odd because if the elos are accurate test kits it tells me those readings where I wouldn't have to dose but every other day or third day and I've been doing it daily for a long time.
For the above readings I haven't dosed any more to the tank since I wanted the numbers to come down a bit. So it has gone from daily dosing to none in three days.
Normally I've been dosing alk and Ca every morning in the tank.
I decided to get out the test kits to check what the levels were at since I hadn't done it in a while.
So here are three days worth of testing:
Ca: 450 - dKh: 10
Ca: 440 - dKh: 9
Ca: 435 dKh: 9
Calcium drops a little bit but the alk doesn't do much. I was doing 1 milk cap full of alk and 2 milk caps of Ca daily on randy's two part.
The test kits aren't that old. They date 2010 on them. Maybe my tank just doesn't use it that often where I don't need to dose daily, but I have been dosing daily for weeks/months like that with no problems. Just seems odd because if the elos are accurate test kits it tells me those readings where I wouldn't have to dose but every other day or third day and I've been doing it daily for a long time.
For the above readings I haven't dosed any more to the tank since I wanted the numbers to come down a bit. So it has gone from daily dosing to none in three days.