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Re: Arcane labelling

To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
Subject: Re: Arcane labelling
From: Paul Sears <psears at nrn1_NRCan.gc.ca>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:47:54 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <200102010848.DAA23283 at actwin_com> from "Aquatic Plants Digest" at Feb 01, 2001 03:48:05 AM

> From: "Roger S. Miller" <rgrmill at rt66_com>
> Subject: Re: Equilibrium, Ca and Mg levels
> 
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Greg Morin (of SeaChem, makers of Flourite) wrote:
> 
> > Check that label again ;-) It says to raise GH by 1 _meq/L_ add
> > 15g/10 gallons. 1 meq/L is about 3 dH, so you aimed for 3 meq/L which
> > is 9 dH (which is what your test showed).
> 
> Since you're printing new labels for Equilibrium anyway, you could take
> this opportunity to rewrite the instructions with units that are a
> little less arcane than meq/l.  It might prevent some confusion.

	I think you would have to try pretty hard to beat the whole GH/KH
mess for being arcane!  It would be a good idea perhaps to give _both_
now, with a view to moving to meq/L later.

-- 
Paul Sears        Ottawa, Canada

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