Damn Cheap Hydrometer
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tigerpiper
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I can tell if its going to rain if my bunyons hurt.
I can also tell if I just saw my inlaws if my head hurts.
I can also tell if I just saw my inlaws if my head hurts.
kittykitty
Member
it's not too hard to guess what the temperature is outside, you know.
microman2k
Member
i had the exact same problem, my swing arm's weight had fallen out and it kept showing my salinity way too high, as high as the arm could go so naturally i would keep adding water until it would go down and it woulnt so of course i got someone over here and i had raised my salitity WAY to low, as low as it could go around .013 or something like that and everything managed to survive i think but right after that i got into a major kick of checking every parameter of my tank and started doing the pH thing and got a hold of a broken one that registered it 1 whole point too high to like 9 so i was dumping vinegar in the tank in fear that everything in my tank would die, and in fact the pH thing was broken and i wound up killing everthing but a couple of crabs in my tank, i lost my perc clown, yellow tang, and my striped damsel which was my first fish...not a good experiece!
euphoria
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Originally posted by microman2k
i had the exact same problem, my swing arm's weight had fallen out and it kept showing my salinity way too high, as high as the arm could go so naturally i would keep adding water until it would go down and it woulnt so of course i got someone over here and i had raised my salitity WAY to low, as low as it could go around .013 or something like that and everything managed to survive i think but right after that i got into a major kick of checking every parameter of my tank and started doing the pH thing and got a hold of a broken one that registered it 1 whole point too high to like 9 so i was dumping vinegar in the tank in fear that everything in my tank would die, and in fact the pH thing was broken and i wound up killing everthing but a couple of crabs in my tank, i lost my perc clown, yellow tang, and my striped damsel which was my first fish...not a good experiece!
Wow, a horror story, sorry to hear that man. I took a little long piece of plastic and now when I fill up my swingarm w/ water, I put the plastic strip inside the hydrometer and make sure I get rid of all bubbles by just swinging the plastic strip around the insde of the hydrometer. I get all the bubbles out and tap the hydrometer on the table a few times, and it seems to be working ok, but NOT accurate still.
