Tips & Tricks to FIND WATER PARAMETERS WITHOUT Using Aquarium TEST KITS OR TOOLS.

How to make your own ph test solution from anthocynins (red/purple cabbage)

   • NO AQUARIUM PH TEST KIT OR STRIPS? NO...  

Link to how plants, algae & blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) grow on a nutrient and elemental level!
"Nitrogen Crash & Recovery As a Lesson on Plants, Algae, cyanobacteria and limiting factors".

   • NITROGEN CYCLE CRASH. NORMAL WATER PA...  

TIPS & TRICKS FOR FINDING WATER PARAMETERS, USING NATURAL CLUES & WITHOUT USING AQUARIUM TEST KITS OR TOOLS.
Ph, TDS, NUTRIENTS & MORE.


Ph- home reagent from cabbage

TDS - 10 TO 20 dollar probe... or you can evaporate water and with a finely tuned MG level scale, calculate the weight of
Ammonia / meds...foam. 10gallon aquariums takes a million drops...
Or MG of weight per liter of water evaporated.
part per billion is out of 10,000 gallon pool.

Ring around the glass


Green Algae - complex...but usually means too much light or elevated nitrogen, phosphates... lacking potassium, micros or carbon (co2)

Silicates- diatomaceous algae on hard surfaces.

NITROGEN shortage- old leaves fall away leaving rough stem (smooth is reachint for light) bottom leaves are clear or yellow/brown /pale and melting off,
New ones pale. Vivid when low but not dire. Also plants grow denser with low nitrates and grow less side shoots.

PHOSPHATE- veins look lighter, leaf darker and leaves fall away

POTASSIUM - holes in leaves, pin holes and yellowing edges

IRON - nerves/veins green with leaf yellowing

MAGNESIUM- dark color veins on older leaves.

MANGANESE- SPOTS, HOLES WHITE OR LIGHT EDGES.

CALCIUM - stunted wrinkled odd shaped leaves. Soap will react with calcium and leave a film on your hands If it is high

shells rings... calcium kh and gh

Hard water - delicate rotalas mayca, cabomba, tonina fl, dying ...

Fish colors red gills or eyes and gasping for air/foaming of water's

surface...ammonia or nitrite spikes or fish are living in incorrect ph