When testing, top two to check?

spiderwoman

spiderwoman

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Originally Posted by Rotarymagic
http:///forum/post/2838246
maybe invest in a kalk reactor or something... that keeps KH up...
I've got a calcium reactor and ATO systems (will start using kalk there) waiting to be installed and as soon as racing season is over, they finally go in.
 
robertmathern

robertmathern

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well not much longer in racing season left drag racing last week. Nascar good god cant remember the date but by the end of the month. Sad to I used to live in homestead lol
 
rotarymagic

rotarymagic

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Originally Posted by SpiderWoman
http:///forum/post/2838275
I've got a calcium reactor and ATO systems (will start using kalk there) waiting to be installed and as soon as racing season is over, they finally go in.
Is the calcium reactor one that uses aragonite? if so, your alk, calc, mag, etc... issues should be solved lol.
 
mboswell1982

mboswell1982

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good lord, i googled em an grabbed a site, and my lord man, the amount of types of saliferts is unbelievable, there's a separat kit foreach and everythng i need to test for. do they make one thats an all in one? instead of buying each and every kit?
 
novahobbies

novahobbies

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Wow, that was a good question. I guess I'm weird -- I do the full spectrum every week religiously, but then I keep a journal about the tanks also. On occasion I'll just do a quick nitrate and calcium test mid-week when I'm cleaning the filter or something. I had a diatom bloom for no good reason last week, and ran the ammonia-trite-trate tests a couple times just because I was worried.
 
big

big

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Of course the question steers one towards Alkalinity and Calcium and Nitrates. All very important, but................
A quick PH change (out of the range of daily fluctuations), I feel the first easily readable sign something is going wrong in a tank.. I think only one person said that one as one of the most important test......Using a probe gives a constant reading to see..........I check my probe several times a day, almost as much as temperature which some may not think of as a test. test. But if we are checking it, it too is testing water conditions.........
So after all that babbling-typing therapy, my awnser would be PH and Temperture..........
 
spiderwoman

spiderwoman

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Originally Posted by big
http:///forum/post/2839859
So after all that babbling-typing therapy, my awnser would be PH and Temperture..........
I don't test those per say because I've got 2 out of 3 tanks on controller that will email me if my high/low values have been passed.
 
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