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#1
10-02-2008, 10:03 PM
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What should I be testing for?
Turning my 90g into a reef tank, so far I just got some GSP, Frog spawn, Kenya, xenia, galaxy corals in my tank…( added all yesterday )
I only have a test kit for the basic nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, and ph. Today I bought a reef kit test kit that has calcium, carbonate hardness, phosphate and nitrate. Was that a good buy or should have I gotten something else? Ex. Iodine? Or Alkalinity? I’m curious what do you guys test for?? Oh I only use prime and stability to perp my water, and in my tank I use ‘purple up’ every other day. ‘ agagamilk’ everyother day and something called ‘cotal vital’ also for my live rock. 
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#2
10-02-2008, 10:35 PM
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Carbonate hardness and alkalinity are the same thing. And it is a good idea to know where your alk is at. I don't think iodine is all that important. I would get a magnesium test kit before iodine as Mg is needed at proper levels to help maintain calcium and alk.
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#3
10-03-2008, 12:38 AM
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Calcium, Alk, Mag, these are the 3 big ones that are a must. Nitrate, Phos, and PH are also a good thing to get. Do you use RO/DI water? if not it would be a good idea to start using that. Best thing to maintain these levels are a 2 part Calcium/ALK additive such as E.S.V B-Ionic or C-Balance. The rest IMO is a waste of money.
HTH.
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#4
10-03-2008, 03:07 AM
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So what are the test results?
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10-03-2008, 05:38 AM
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phosphate was 0.0 or 0.5 it came out this pale light brown colour (which could have been either 0.0 or the 0.5) oddly 0.25 is a yellow colour on the colour card my Alkalinity was 8dkh - ppmKH 143.2 Calcium test took 18drops to turn it blue, so 360-380.
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