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[moldrik]

Hey guys,

So, I wanted to figure this out. Since it's been 3 weeks since my tank has been running, figured I'd do some testing. So, there I went and took out my test kit.

Everything tested ok, and then I get to the GH/KH test, and what do I do. I counted 24 drops of the GH solution before it turned blue and 18 drops of the KH solution before it turned yellow.

GH is around 24x20 = 440
KH is around 18x10 = 180

So, i go, sweet, what do these really mean? I looked at the table on the back and it says:

Conversion table:
Multiply GH or KH by x 0.056 = dh or gh
" " " " " x 0.07 = clark
" " " " " x 0.1 = fh
" " " " " x 1 = hardness
" " " " " x 0.02 = mEq/L

So, how do I get dKH out of this??
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[mark]

wondering if this is a Hagen kit. Also isn't GH more for freshwater. If so thought you got ppm, then could use this calculator (http://www.saltyzoo.com/SaltyCalcs/AlkConv.php) to dKH.

[reefermadness]

For SW only use the KH value which is in PPM. 180ppm x .056 = 10.08DKH. Looks good.

To get meq/l out of dkh you mulitply by 2.8.

[moldrik]

The reason why I had asked was because GH x 0.058 and KH x 0.058 gives two completely different numbers, so I didn't know which one to use.

Yeah, it's a hagen kit.

So it sounds like the water parameters are ok.

Thanks.
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