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Water Chemistry

Keeping the water right — pH and hardness, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate, chlorine and chloramine, oxygen, salinity, and algae.

PH

Water quality

Water quality

Ammonia

Nitrate

Nitrate

Hard water

Chlorine

Chlorine

Dissolved oxygen

Dissolved oxygen

Alkalinity

Alkalinity

Salinity

Water

Algae

Copper

Copper

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