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View Poll Results: Has potassium dosing positively affected your reef?
Yes. 9 27.27%
I think so, but I'm not sure. 5 15.15%
I don't think so, but I'm not sure. 3 9.09%
No. 0 0%
Potassium dosing has negatively affected my reef. 0 0%
I haven't tried dosing potassium. 16 48.48%
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Old 11-08-2010, 02:11 AM
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I've never been comfortable dosing anything I can't test for.

I have a huge problem trying to read the potassium test kit. I've always said I could get more accurate readings by dipping my finger into the tank and stating the first random number that comes to to mind. It consistently read high regardless whether I was dosing or not, which led me to believe either I was reading the result wrong or the test kit was faulty, or it was just a joke (honestly, making a test sample as opaque as skim milk and reading the # where you can't see the colour strip through said milk, .. seemed sketchy to me at best).

Anyhow so I stopped testing. I could never tell a difference between actively dosing or not actively dosing, but because I couldn't test for it, I never dosed it heavy and maybe that was why I couldn't tell a difference. They say that overdosing is worse than underdosing or not at all so for now I've given up on it.

Bring on the Hanna photometer for potassium and I'll be all over the idea of trying again
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