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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / November 2006water hardness question
Just did some testing and got a problem. My water hardness has always been on the low side of "normal" but not now. pH is 8.4 Phosphates aren't registering Calcium is at least 440 Ammonia, Nitrite and Natrate are perfect I don't have a magnesium test kit but I add magnesium a couple of times a week before calcium The problem: my hardness is at 6 KH. I can't seem to increase that number. My animals seem fine at night but who knows. What can I add to directly pinpoint water hardness? Thanks, Bryan What methods have you used to try to increase it? Wayne Sallee Wayne's Pets Wayne@WaynesPets.com Bryan wrote on 11/14/2006 10:05 PM: > Just did some testing and got a problem. My water hardness has always been > on the low side of "normal" but not now. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Thanks, > Bryan I have been adding sodium bicarbonate. I have never been able to get the hardness where I want it. But in recent months I've been increasing the calcium and therefore the hardness has decreased. I've been concentrating more on calcium during those month than the other. I add and tested for calcium and not hardness so I"m doing a little backstepping now to get it all right. I just read about the baking soda and may do that to get a jump back up. Hopefully my calc levels will stay. B > What methods have you used to try to increase it? > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >> Thanks, >> Bryan Bryan, All the answers you need are here: http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/nov2002/chem.htm Ben > Just did some testing and got a problem. My water hardness has always been > on the low side of "normal" but not now. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Thanks, > Bryan thanks Ben. I had a general knowledge of this but that article cleared somethings up. :) B > Bryan, > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >> Thanks, >> Bryan Bryan, what kind of test kits are you using? If you're using the dip & read kits they're not as accurate as the drop by drop color change test kits like Salifert LaMotte and even Hagen. Yes I said Hagen for all the non-believers. If you're using a good test kit, then you need to look at the bio-load of your tank. Is it stocked with coral. If so you might want to consider adding Kalkwasser or some other form of alkalinity/calcium booster. Anyway good luck on you Alk. And if you haven't already, check out this site. Sign up. And ask away.. http://www.reefcentral.com/ my test kits are all dropper kits. KH is a Tetra test kit and all others are Aquarium Pharmaceuticals. http://www.aquariumpharm.com/en_us/productCategory.asp?categoryname=TestKits thanks, B > Bryan, what kind of test kits are you using? If you're using the > dip & read kits they're not as accurate as the drop by drop color [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > * http://www.newsleecher.com/?usenet > ---------------------------------------------- |
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