Which tester?

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  1. Stingray

    Stingray Blue Ringed Angel

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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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  2. inwall75

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    Alkalinity....by a long shot
     
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  3. Otty

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    What Inwall said but all three are important.
     
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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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  5. Stingray

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    Ok cheers guys
     
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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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  7. Otty

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    I run my dKH at around 13, sps like it!
     
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