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So Lately I’ve been having trouble while mixing my water nailing the salinity. I typically use my milwaukee refractometer and back up the reading with my hydrometer as a safeguard. And honestly my coralife hydrometer seems to always be spot on. I’m making water and I let it mix over night, in the morning I check with the Milwaukee and it tells me 1.027 which is weird because I know exactly how much salt I put in. Then I test with my hydrometer and it says 1.025. I grab my old manual refractometer which I never trusted to begin with and it tells me 1.024....... at this point I’m stumped so I recalibrate my Milwaukee and it now says 1.025 as well. Now I figure I’m okay adding that this water as the reading on the Milwaukee are matching my tank but I’m worried that the Milwaukee has been reading low the whole time and my tank and the water I just made are both really sitting at 1.024.... all the alk, calcium and mag are looking normal. What should I do?