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Ugh, These Blasted Test Kits!…And Maybe A Little Kalkwasser Seesaw Effect?

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Ugh, These Blasted Test Kits!…And Maybe A Little Kalkwasser Seesaw Effect?

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Yep, admittedly I fell prey to bad test kits, first with alkalinity and then with magnesium. <> Here is my issue, 1000 gallon system, my reactor used to be able to maintain Alk and calc at appropriate levels, the test kit I was using (Red Sea as I couldn’t get Salifert at the time) <> for magnesium was reading 1200 ppm. Little did I know it was below that by 200ppm per my Elos kit, <> and I was using Kalk which was eroding it further. <> Needless to say I fell into this desperate addition of varying buffers to maintain Alk and calcium until magnesium finally h