Re: [GSAS-Member] API KH Carbonate Hardness Test Kit Results

["Richard Parke" <sparke_ricardo@msn.com>]

Yup, that's Seattle area water. I replaced the colored gravel with natural 
gravel and added crushed coral to build up the carbonate hardness. Seems to 
have built up the KH a bit.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeff<mailto:jeff@gotperk.com> 
  To: 'Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member 
chat'<mailto:gsas-member@thekrib.com> 
  Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 3:07 PM
  Subject: [GSAS-Member] API KH Carbonate Hardness Test Kit Results


  Has anyone else had this result; The water in the test tube is supposed to
  turn blue and then bright yellow; the number of drops it takes to turn it
  bright yellow is the degrees of carbonate hardness; my test tube water has
  never turned blue first it always starts to change from clear to yellow with
  the first drop; by about 3-5 drops its bright yellow; I've put in as much as
  twenty drops and it stays yellow all the way; If I am interpreting these
  results correctly my water is between 3-5 degrees which is very soft water
  which is excellent for plants and Amazonian type fish such as stingrays;

   

  Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks, Jeff A.

   

   

  AM Test in Redmond will do an official test for $ 12.00; I use them to test
  sewage all the time so they might run a test for me on the cuff;

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