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Monday, February 7, 2011

The big mess!

What a  mess I created by using a bad test kit.

All of the sudden my corals were loosing tissue. This kept going on for days I ran multiple tests but everything showed normal. Out of desparation I took my water sample to the trusted LFS and the readings were way off.

KH was way too high, so I had to reduce my alk. additions. I was recommended to do couple big water changes to bring the Alk. down to where it needs to be.The tissue loss stopped shortly after.
Lessons learned
  1. When things don't seem to go right, do lots of big water changes
  2.  When in doubt use different test kits to verify the numbers

Waffleman

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