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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / January 2005Calcium
I bought a calcium test kit that you add a drops of the test liquid and then count them until the water turns from pink to violet. According to my calculations my levels are between 520 and 540! Is this too high? I read that they should be between 400 and 450. What will happen if I leave it at this level? TIA ps.. This is a great group. Always friendly and willing to help. I can't wait till I learn enough to be able to contribute myself Are you using Oceanic salt? Marc > I bought a calcium test kit that you add a drops of the test liquid and then > count them until the water turns from pink to violet. According to my [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > ps.. This is a great group. Always friendly and willing to help. I can't > wait till I learn enough to be able to contribute myself  SignaturePersonal Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com/oanda/index.html Business Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com Marine Hobbyist: http://www.melevsreef.com > Are you using Oceanic salt? > > Marc <snip> I bought several boxes of Catalina Water Company Real Ocean Pure Natural Seawater. I've used this for the first 3 months of water changes (my original water was made with Instant Ocean salt). I found a great place to buy RO water ($0.25 per gallon), so I had just purchased more Instant Ocean salt and plan on using that from now on. Why do you mention the oceanic Marc? > Are you using Oceanic salt? > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> can't >> wait till I learn enough to be able to contribute myself Oceanic salt give us high readings, especially if the salinity is 1.026 Marc > Why do you mention the oceanic Marc? > >> Are you using Oceanic salt? >> >> Marc SignaturePersonal Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com/oanda/index.html Business Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com Marine Hobbyist: http://www.melevsreef.com Really depends. The first thing I would suggest you do is that you have somebody else test your calcium and see if they get the same results as you do. If you calcium is really that high, it is not really a problem other than you could have other ions out of balance. You could also have a problem with calcium precipation on pumps/powerheads etc. You need to check your alkalinity and see what it is at. Normally if you have calcium levels this high and a normal alkalinity you will have a major precipation event. kim > I bought a calcium test kit that you add a drops of the test liquid and then > count them until the water turns from pink to violet. According to my [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > ps.. This is a great group. Always friendly and willing to help. I can't > wait till I learn enough to be able to contribute myself Check your alkalinity.... with Ca that high there has to be some other ion out of wack... and in a salt tank it is the alkalinity that most often balances this out. Tre' > I bought a calcium test kit that you add a drops of the test liquid and > then [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > can't > wait till I learn enough to be able to contribute myself |
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