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Old 05-12-2008, 04:53 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Am gonna buy a water test kit tomorrow, which one of these 3 are the most important,

1-Calcium.
2-Magnesium.
3-Alkalinity.


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Alkalinity....by a long shot


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If one is all you can swing at a time ? then as Curt mentioned ALK . is the more importiant one to have ..
But all three will be needed ASAP if you are doing a reef


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ok, i just went out and purchased the Salifert KH/Alk Profi test kit and here are the results, got no idea if these readings are good or bad, so what do you think?

KH-dKH=8.0

Alkalinity-meq/L=2.86

Thanks in advance...

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Very good i take it...
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I run my dKH at around 13, sps like it!
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