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FlooringGuy 
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Posted: December 14 2010 at 4:33pm |
What are the side effects of having too high of calcium in your tank? My alkalinity levels are 11.2 and this has been at this level for the last 3 weeks.
My calcium is just over 500. My best guess is about 550. Will this high of level of calcium hurt my corals?
My test kit only goes to 500 and it looks like it is just about to switch colors. I recently did a 10% water change and my levels are still the same.
Any advise?
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Posted: December 14 2010 at 4:36pm |
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the only problem i see with a bit high calcium is calcium deposits building around equipment.
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Posted: December 14 2010 at 4:41pm |
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What salt are you using for waterchanges?.... some people like to keep their calicum at 500, so your not way off.... also maybe your cal test kit is inaccurate
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Posted: December 14 2010 at 4:49pm |
I am using a Salifert Calcium test Kit.
I am using Oceanic Salt.
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Posted: December 14 2010 at 4:57pm |
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I would bet your alk kit is off unless you are dosing something to raise alkalinity. Oceanic salt is notorious for high calcium (500+) and lower alk (8ish dkh).
Your batch may have high alk though you never know.
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Posted: December 14 2010 at 4:58pm |
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how much stony coral do you have in your tank lps and sps..... or even just coraline algae.. also salifert are supposed to be spot on.
oceanic is supposed to be high in calcium and alkalinity... so i am sure that is why you are that high
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Posted: December 14 2010 at 5:00pm |
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What are the side effects of having too high of calcium in your tank? |
It could cause coral death or a tank crash if it gets out of control, so it's good that you are watching it and trying to control it.
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Posted: December 14 2010 at 5:01pm |
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ryan maybe be right on the oceanic being low on dkh.. i havent researched that part... i was just going off what the owner of mountain shadow marine told me, cause when i didnt have that many stonies i was having the same problem, and i was using oceanic
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Posted: December 14 2010 at 7:16pm |
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No test kit should every be consider incapable of having fault. Always be ready to compare to another test kit of friend or LFS.
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