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take some baking soda and bake in an oven for 30 min. at 350... let cool and now you have concentrated form on baking soda... its what i use. Randy can chime in. its his recipe. use it all the time
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I bumped it up, came home today checked the alk had no movement, so I found my Api alk kit and checked it with that, and it's coming back at 9.
My Red Sea is coming back at 6.4. I know the Red Sea is usually better but I'm thinking it may be wrong.
Hey I use the red sea kh kit for years... you do realize that if you check the blue card it sais "titrant used" therefor .64 (not 6.4) titrant used is equivalent to 9.0 which is the exact reading you are getting with API. i would say you are fine with that reading... do nothing. alk is good.
I suppose I could add a drop or two more, but I am reading it correctly right? The directions say bottom of the plunger. I think the lighting is a bit off as well.
one upHeck I'd just use a Teaspoon of baking soda, that would take care of that.
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The calculator is awesome. Thank you
Yes! Randy suggested I increase my limewater from 1/2 tsp to a full tsp in which I did. I'm not touching it anymore until I figure out if my test kit is bad.
I have api test kit and Red Sea. I normally don't use the api at all, but again today I checked everything, my calcium is up to 500 with Red Sea kit and 480 with api, pretty close.
The alk! (The pain) is still showing 5dkh on the Redsea and 8 on the api. So now I don't know what is right. I would think Red Sea is correct but...... It's been 5-6dkh before I increased the limewater and still says that now. I have double and triple tested.
Yes! Randy suggested I increase my limewater from 1/2 tsp to a full tsp in which I did. I'm not touching it anymore until I figure out if my test kit is bad.
I have api test kit and Red Sea. I normally don't use the api at all, but again today I checked everything, my calcium is up to 500 with Red Sea kit and 480 with api, pretty close.
The alk! (The pain) is still showing 5dkh on the Redsea and 8 on the api. So now I don't know what is right. I would think Red Sea is correct but...... It's been 5-6dkh before I increased the limewater and still says that now. I have double and triple tested.