Cal issues!

[MizTanks]

WC=1g 2x weekly
Salt=Reef Crystals.

[Fishgeek88]

Shhh, don't want to get the param police sent on me...............but I only test cal, alk and mag these days.

lol, well i only test alk and cal

[MizTanks]

That's about all I test for~keeping an eye on my sg/ph too.

[dejavu]

My guess is the there was a error in the first test of 440 ppm. If you see an increase like that in a day I would test twice.

[MizTanks]

It wasn't an increase in a day~I had been dosing Magnesium at 8ml daily for a week to combat Bryopsis however being unable to test for Mag levels I stopped dosing with it~4ml daily of Kents Part A&B at the same time I was dosing with Mag~After stopping the Mag I did a 1g WC~tested and my cal reading was 440~I'm sure the Mag dosing had something to do with the raise in cal levels~I don't know the chemistry of SW therefor I really don't understand the the correlation between Mag/Cal dosing. Does this make sense?


Update as of 11-21: Tested cal and readings are 400 after having dosed this morning with Mag and cal.

[whitetiger61]

400 is looking better.keep up the good work..your tank is amazing..when it grows in .. it will be amazinly outstanding..

Rick

[MizTanks]

Reef Crystals. WC 1g 2x weekly. May increase it to 2g 2x weekly only cause my tank is maxed.

[RaysReef]

what is your MAG testing out? Ideally you want it around 1350-1400, to combat bryopsis you want to be somewhere around 1600+

Also MAG typically stay constant after reading...Doesn't drop like CA daily. Also you do not want to raise your MAG by more than 50 points at a time. So don't jump from 1300 to 1600 it should be evenly stretched out 4-5 days worth of MAG dosing.

[tazzy695]

I dont think she has a mg test kit yet

[at]

I use Brightwell aquatics kalk. It has magnesium and strontium in it I dont test that often but usually cal is around 420 and mag 1350