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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / November 2004is 600ppm calcium ok?
my tank hovers at 600ppm calcium and has for about 6 months now without adding ANY Calc supplement, unless superbuffer adds calc. it kept it near 450 using turbocalc until i got a bag of argonite to finish up my homemade refugium. do i need to do some water changes or will that be ok? its my understanding that it can only clog pumps etc, and there has been no sign of that. wolf Are you sure that your test kit is OK? I'm not sure but I think that if the Ca was so high it would lead to pecipitation of Ca and Alkalinity on the glass, pumps, heaters... Mislav > my tank hovers at 600ppm calcium and has for about 6 months now without > adding ANY Calc supplement, unless superbuffer adds calc. it kept it near [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > of that. > wolf I was wondering the same. My tank hovers somewhere up there as well, and this also occured after adding a fuge to the system. > my tank hovers at 600ppm calcium and has for about 6 months now without > adding ANY Calc supplement, unless superbuffer adds calc. it kept it near [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > of that. > wolf In article <U8Kod.2603m2.2345@trnddc04> J.S. <jsaputo@verizon.net> wrote: >> my tank hovers at 600ppm calcium and has for about 6 months now without >> adding ANY Calc supplement, unless superbuffer adds calc. it kept it near [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> of that. >> wolf Atl. -- Lady Chatterly "This if for Robert Griffin, Australian bum, who posts with 'Secure Alert' and numerous other with holes riddled and bad smelling sock puppets. He also posts with 'Lady Chatterly'" -- Barbara Schwarz "Wolf" <"lone6wolfpak@hotmail.com"> wrote on Tue, 23 Nov 2004: > my tank hovers at 600ppm calcium and has for about 6 months now > do i need to do some water changes or will that be ok? May depend on what creatures you have as well. I had too-high Ca for awhile, and my green star polyps wouldn't fully extend. I slowly reduced Ca to NSW levels over time, and the mat of polyps happily recovered. 400-450 is much better than 600, all around. -- Don _______________________________________________________________________________ Don Geddis don@geddis.org http://reef.geddis.org/ Mine is in the 600 range as well. For me it isn't the test kit. I've checked it with 3. For me I believe it is a combination of using aragonite deep sand bed and using Oceanic salt which is known to have a high Ca and Mg content. It hasn't been a problem except that my dKh was slightly low and I had to buffer to get it up to 11. HTH >my tank hovers at 600ppm calcium and has for about 6 months now without >adding ANY Calc supplement, unless superbuffer adds calc. it kept it near [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > |
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