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Have a TDS meter on it's way to me from Amazon.
I understand how it works.
What I'm failing to grasp is what the reading means to me as a pond owner.
Basically, all I can do is add lime if my water doesn't have enough TDS - Correct?
I bought the meter primarily because it reads PH.
It will also read TDS, but I'm not sure it's data I can use.
Last edited by Clay N' Pray; 06/26/18 07:38 PM.
Half acre 30 year old farm pond, Mebane NC. Aeration & feeder. LMB, CC, SC, BG, HBC, two no account welfare carp and nine seasonal Tilapia that all the other fish are terrified of. 
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Clay n Pray,
I looked thru the list of acronyms but didn't see TDS. Is that Total Dissolved Sulfates?
.10 surface acre pond, 10.5 foot deep. SW LA. The epitome of a mutt pond. BG, LMB, GSF, RES, BH, Warmouth, Longear Sunfish, Gambusia,Mud Minnows, Crappie, and now shiners!!...I subscribe!!
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Probably total dissolved solids.
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I love the clay and pray name.
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New toys tools are out for delivery. 
Half acre 30 year old farm pond, Mebane NC. Aeration & feeder. LMB, CC, SC, BG, HBC, two no account welfare carp and nine seasonal Tilapia that all the other fish are terrified of.
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Digital PH & TDS meters plus API master kit are in hand. I look forward to seeing an accurate overall picture of my water chemistry. Of particular interest is ammonia, KH and GH. If ammonia is high should I decrease the amount of feed, increase aeration, reduce biomass or a little of all three? (It depends...right?)
Last edited by Clay N' Pray; 06/27/18 07:39 AM.
Half acre 30 year old farm pond, Mebane NC. Aeration & feeder. LMB, CC, SC, BG, HBC, two no account welfare carp and nine seasonal Tilapia that all the other fish are terrified of.
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