There was once a thought that keeping fish in a low
salinity level was less stressfull on fish because the
fish did not have to proces as much salt with theier
kidneys, but this is fals.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



miskairal wrote on 12/12/2005 4:15 PM:
Thanks Roy and Don. Yes I have some coral that came on the live rock,
soft and hard, and I bought a leather coral at the same time as the Ca
test kit and it's looking great.

How do I lower the Calcium level? I have added nothing to this new setup
so far apart from the coral life salt. Actually, I suppose I should test
the R/O water as it has just occurred to me that there is a lime quarry
on our farm and I make the R/O water from our creek water.

I've got the SG at 1.022 b/c my petshop guy recommended that. He keeps
his holding tanks at 1.018 - he told me that is less stressful on fish
that are stressed by being capturing and/or moved. I had intended
keeping my Q tank at 1.020. My tank is new and I'm just starting to
stock it.

Don Geddis wrote:

miskairal mehiding@Oz wrote on Mon, 12 Dec 2005:

Is it ok to have a calcium reading of 600?
Can a high Ca hurt anything?



I once had green star polyps with a high Ca like that. They wouldn't
come
out/extend. I was asking for help at the time, and someone suggested the
high calcium as a possible culprit. Sure enough, as the calcium
dropped to
more normal levels, the star polyps began to re-emerge.

I suspect you ought to keep calcium levels near that of normal seawater.

-- Don
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