deep six reading?????????

cgrant

cgrant

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Well, i got my refractometer in today and calibrated it.
Now I try keep my tank about 1.022 and have been using the deep six.
I take a reading w/ my refractometer 1.026 :notsure:
I am thinking no way its that far off, so i recalibrate it again w/ ro water. set to 0.
I take another reading 1.026 :notsure:
I take another reading with the deep six 1.022, now i'm thinking WTF?
Recalibrate the refractometer again to 0, take another reading 1.026
Now I know I have read that the deep six is pretty mutch junk, but I didnt think it would be that far off? :scared:
So i am thinking time to dump deep six in the trash
 
sharkbait9

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The name/term "deep six" came from the navy. One stated to "deep six" the garbage = off the back and make sink deep (the back of a boat was called the 6 like on a clock 12 being front also know as aft/stern = rear and bow =front) So any way being that the deep six does suck so bad, coralife knew people would just deep six that product any way so they named it deep six. :hilarious
 
turningtim

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The only thing I'm surprised with is that you got it to read the same thing twice in a row!
Good one Sharkbait!
Tim
 
sharkbait9

sharkbait9

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Originally Posted by CGRANT
So i am thinking time to dump deep six in the trash

Hence your going to deep six it.

I am too a little surprised you got two of the same readings out of it.
Turning tim Thanks it was cheap shot and had to be taken, even thou I like coralife/ESU
In all honesty when I first got in to this hobby that kind of testing equipment is all we had. The trick behind using them was to get water just hot enough starting from using cold water and placing it on the stove and heating it up just before it starts to boil, then let the water cool down to room temp and then start to use it. Then the reading was pretty accurate, or so we all thought back in the day. :notsure:
 
glowplug

glowplug

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the deep six is all i have! ahhhhhhh yall gonna make me cry@! Its funny though cause mine read.023 ALL the time!
 
sharkbait9

sharkbait9

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Originally Posted by glowplug
the deep six is all i have! ahhhhhhh yall gonna make me cry@! Its funny though cause mine read.023 ALL the time!
Try the old school set up trick and see what reading you get after that, bet it changes :thinking:
 
sharkbait9

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The trick behind using them was to get water just hot enough starting from using cold water and placing it on the stove and heating it up just before it starts to boil heavy, then let the water cool down to room temp and then start to use it. It will be very fragile at this point do not touch it, just let it cool down on its own.
 
glowplug

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sharkbait9 said:
The trick behind using them was to get water just hot enough starting from using cold water and placing it on the stove and heating it up just before it starts to boil, then let the water cool down to room temp and then start to use it[/QUOTE
So what will that tell me? does it just prep the deep six to get an accurate reading?, you might be mr.obvious here but im just not making the connection!
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turningtim

turningtim

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Originally Posted by glowplug
you dont heat up the deep six right, cmon im from ky your probably gonna have to draw me sumthin
:hilarious
 
sharkbait9

sharkbait9

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Yes you “heat up” the plastic and that little sponge on the swing arm. This is/was called prepping your Hydrometer for use. Like I said.
1.bend over
2. Open cabinet door.
3. Look for cooking pot.
4. Yell to significant other for aspirin for headache, from reading directions.
5 take two (2) aspirin in mouth and wash down with water, not home made moon shine or other alcoholic beverage.
6. Turn cold water handle on faucet, normally the right side handle or lever.
7 Fill cooking pot with cold water, leaving enough room for water displacement when “deep six is placed in pot of water.
8. Place pot filled with cold water on stove, wood burning stove will work also in this step.
9 turn on gas or light wood on fire. Reply if instruction are needed to operate matches/lighters
10. Place Deep six hydrometer in cold water.
11. Step back from stove and pot of water.
12 Crack open favorite alcoholic beverage.
13. Only drink one can/bottle. Sobriety is need to complete task at hand. Drink it slow, you want calm nerves at this point.
14. Once water starts to bubble up, not the start of the tiny bubbles but almost a rolling boil.
15 turn off water.
16. Remove pot from stove
17. Place pot on cool surface, away from any one who may be tempted to stick body parts in hot water. Including your self.
18. Once water in pot has reached room temperature around 68 degrees.
19. Remove hydrometer from water and pot
20. Dry hydrometer off with towel
21. Pick up pot of water
22. Dump water out of pot
23. Wash pot with soap and water
24. Place pot in dish rack or other suitable dish drying area
25. Proceed to testing aquarium water with hydrometer.
Hope this helps
 
glowplug

glowplug

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See what i mean, now you splained it to me! i did have some lighter trouble but I just pulled out the trusty flint rock! So any idea what this is actually doing other than allmost melting plastic? I mean thats fun too, but...... just a tried and true old timey reefer trick?
 
keith burn

keith burn

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Originally Posted by glowplug
See what i mean, now you splained it to me! i did have some lighter trouble but I just pulled out the trusty flint rock! So any idea what this is actually doing other than allmost melting plastic? I mean thats fun too, but...... just a tried and true old timey reefer trick?
lol lol
:joy:

lol lol lmao now you splained it to me!
 
sharkbait9

sharkbait9

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Well first off your not melting plastic your prepping it. Hence the “just till it starts to bubble up“. If you can stand hot water running over your hand for a while then use the hot water out of your faucet, I can’t. This is what a lot of people did back in the day when a refract meter was a piece of lab equipment and people did not want to spend thousands of dollars on a tool to measure salinity. I’m sure some people remember paying twenty to twenty five bucks on this plastic hunk of junk, now there what four dollars and something cents. Now a days a refract meter cost anywhere from nineteen bucks to three hundred bucks. At the cost of a refract meter you’re a silly goose to use a hydrometer. I got into this hobby back in the mid eighties and the equipment used was nothing like it is today, consider your self lucky. You may think I’m joking but I’m not, prepping your hydrometer was something you had to do. it’s a trick/technique that has been lost, and rightfully so. How it helps. During manufacturing it has oils and other contaminates in and on the plastic, hence when you use it you see all those bubbles sticking to the sides and on the little sponge on the sides of the swing arm. Any bubbles left inside the hydrometer will affect salinity level readings. Even on a refract meter, you don’t want bubbles on your prism for fear of a false reading. The same applies to your hydrometer, air bubbles can have an ill affect on the swing arm of the hydrometer, giving high reading or even low reading. This was just my two cents on the tips/techniques used back in the day
 
glowplug

glowplug

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I dont doubt that its good advice, ill try it tonight and probably continue to do so till I man up and get better equipment! Instead of new living things! But when your first starting out you want SOOOO much. I have heard horror stories about fishkeeping before technology caught up with the hobby.Like NEVER changing water! You got any crazy stories sharkbait? WAIT, you know how ive been lately!!!! You might want to keep em simple!---#!!-!-!~- HAHAHA
 
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