Response to Toning mistake--how to duplicate or re-create

--> That color may have also come from a combination of exhausted developer and weak fixer. THAT is quite possible, since I had exhausted the developer by the time I made that print, I probably had weak fixer by then, too. I know improperly fixed prints take on all kinds of hues (generally pink in my recent expereience with improperly fixed contact sheets, although some went blue, too), and maybe the combination of this colour (pink or blue), then the selenium, is what gave me that marvelous ochre tone. If that's the case, then maybe I should try that again, i.e., use a weak fix and then tone it; and then, for archiving, I suppose I should rinse, re-fix in fresh fixer, and then continue with my normal archiving process (10 minutes in wash-aid and 1 hour wash at 68 deg.). MY NEW QUESTION, then, is, how do I 'artifically' weaken the fixer? Can I just use a very dilute solution, say 1:20 instead of 1:9? Or must I run a number of prints through? I hope not, since consistencey is obviously the key here...

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