HC - Those meters at Home dePot, Lowe's, etc. are crap! Hanna meters are crap!!!!

If you can afford US$75 - $100, you can buy a pretty good pH meter. I have a Milwaukee ($80) and it works fine for me. If you can't afford a meter right now, get a liquid test kit for $5-$10. Lowe's does have some pretty cool digital thermometers pretty cheap - look in their garden section.

Good luck!!! :thumbsup:

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