Crazy day today but I did talk with tech support at LaMotte. The yellow/orange color can present itself with PH from what I was told. I'm not sure I understand that but feel better that I didn't do something wrong on the test to get that color instead of the purple they listed. Alkalinity reading this evening around 4:45PM was 78-80 ppm which is getting closer to the baseline testing I had done with TX.
- My thought on this is that the water is still mixing a little from the rain and inflow on Sunday-Tuesday. Typically takes two days for the water to make it off the hill and finish draining into the pond. I didn't retest the PH. Guessing everything is normalizing.

The big take away for anybody else that is using the LaMotte test kit with the new liquid Alkalinity test vs the tablet is that Purple or Yellow are both normal on the color change during the test.

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