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06-13-2011, 10:19 PM
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ALK
I have been having trouble keeping my alk stable. I was using an elos test kit and was starting to dought it. No matter what I tried my alk would drop to 6 dkh in two days. So I bought some other brands of test kits and they all gave me different readings. Elos 6, Salifert 10, Hagen 7, API 8. It seems strange to me that the two high end kits are at extreme oposite ends of the scale. My Elos kit was tested against another Elos kit when I bought it and it was the same then, but that was a couple months ago. The salifert tests good against the reference sample. All the kits produced the same results both times I tested them.
API seems like the most realistic number. If the Salifert is correct it would explain why it falls so fast when I try to raise it. Which kit should I believe?
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72g bowfront, t5. 29g JBJ nano cube, ATI 26HD. Livestock: clown fish, chromis, coral beauty. Corals: Toadstool, maze brain, candy cane, mushrooms (purple & green hairy), button polyps, green zoas, GSP. 
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