so I retested....saw my mistake right away, the instructions say using the 5ml syringe add
4 ml of tank water. Well, you guessed it, I added all 5. So the retest shows Alk at 9.1 dkh/ 3.25 Meq which I think is a good place for it to be.
Now how do I delete this thread and pretend that I am not such an idiot?
