Help Needed!

[chrisrm]

I just got my co2 drop checker and being new to the whole co2 thing am unsure of one thing.
 
Do i need to get some dkh4 to go with this?

 

[SO19Firearms]

If the instructions tell you to add tank water with so many drops from that bottle - It will be a re-agent. So replace the tank water with 4dKH.
If it says fill the drop checker with that bottle then it will be a re-agent+4dKH....but I'd guess it's just a pH bottle so you'll probably want 4dKH

 

[chrisrm]

If the instructions tell you to add tank water with so many drops from that bottle - It will be a re-agent. So replace the tank water with 4dKH.
If it says fill the drop checker with that bottle then it will be a re-agent+4dKH....but I'd guess it's just a pH bottle so you'll probably want 4dKH

it says add 5 drops to then add tank water but surly id need to know the dKH of my tank water to get a true reading? is that right?

 

[chrisrm]

when i added the tank water it turned green!
 
left it in the tank for 3 hours and this is the colour but there is no co2 being added at the moment??
 
confused
 

 
ive ordered some 4dKH so hopefuly it will be a better colour when added to that.

 

[techen]

This is why I dont buy china drop checkers

 

[SO19Firearms]

it says add 5 drops to then add tank water but surly id need to know the dKH of my tank water to get a true reading? is that right?

Yes, that's right.
 

when i added the tank water it turned green!

If you know you're tank KH you can read off a chart what that green means.
But as you now know, stick 4dKH in there instead and all the advice about lime green and yellow will mean more

HTH

EDIT:

For example if your KH is 12, you'd need it to be this blue to know you have enough CO2.....

(Get/make some 4 dKH

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