Try Instant Ocean. I don't like Oceanic.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



miskairal wrote on 3/17/2006 3:44 PM:
Afraid that's not the case. I use RO water and the Ca is 0 in that. It
reaches 600 as soon as I add the coralife salt, before it goes in the
tank. I've tried other brands of salt but they have phosphates present
and the coralife doesn't.


William Marsh wrote:
Hi Miskairal: We have on part of town here in Ks that the city water
comes from a lake that must have a high calcium concentration. People
there never add Calcium to there tanks it comes with water changes.
maybe that is why your calcium is so high. lucky you.
Bill
"miskairal" wrote in message
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Does the Ca get released into the tank?
I'm the one with the Ca reading of 600 while using NO additives. Not
that I imagine that will last once I get more corals.

Thanks Wayne



Wayne Sallee wrote:

Volcanic rock is very porus, but it has nothing else to offer. Best
to stick with light weight calcium based rock.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



miskairal wrote on 3/16/2006 5:15 PM:


I'm not a geologist and don't remember much about what I was taught
at school on the topic but my hubby tells me that over in the far
back corner of our farm is an area that a geologist told him had
been a volcano. There is rock there that looks very much like some
live rock, very porous and open but dark coloured.

I need way more rock in my tank but am happy to add dead rock and
wait. How can I find out if I could use this stuff? I know there
have never been chemicals of any sort used over there and the only
possibility of anything like that contaminating it would have been
if cattle were dipped for ticks in the yards about a kilometre away
and went straight there, which they don't, still dripping (not
really possible in our dry climate).

Cheerio
miskairal