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What do I test for? I can test freshwater w/ saltwater test kits? TDS = Total dissolved solids? What does this tell me? What I meant by my first message is that I do not know what to do even if I have a printout of water quality. Sorry!

For top-off & kalk water for my 60 gal tank I currently use RO water from LFS, which is 50 cents/gal and not nearby. I searched Reefs.org and found pros of buying a home RO unit, but today I saw a machine at grocery store which sounds good. For 29 cents/gal water is filtered through carbon, RO...

I currently free dive for fun and sometimes abalone off central CA coast, which is rocky and so very beautiful! (Okay, it's also a bit chilly.) Hope to do scuba certification in August, though I'll probably have a heart attack from the coolness of it, as I nearly do already even though I can...

I've just started curing live rock in my first reef - 60 gal tank (48"L x 15"W x 18"H). I've read Tullock's book and others, and spent hours and hours researching online, but am still stuck on the lighting. I'm going for Indo-Pacific inshore-type reef, like soft corals, LPS stony corals...