No, unfortunately it is not.

Hardness is not something I check, personally, as Alkalinity gives us an
indication of water hardness anyway.

Alkalinity should be between 8 and 11 dKH to match NSW (Natural Sea Water)
Magnesium should be around 1400ppm
Calcium should be 400 - 450ppm.

I'd stop dosing Calcium now. Why not take your new test kits with you to the
LFS and have them do a sample test with you of your water and of theirs? That
was you could compare some of the results against a healthy reef display in
their care.

Marc


Peter Pan wrote:

OK now i followed the directions the correct way and received the following
hardness: 5160
calcium 619
magnisum 4541

is this more in line?

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"Dragon Slayer" wrote in message
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your not doing something right, your calcium is not 2600
ppm...............unless your just dosed 50 gallon of kalk and its snowing
in the tank.

alk should be in the neighborhood of 8 dKH or 2.9 meg/L

1 meg/L = 1 ppm (at least in calcium levels, I just guess the same for
alk,
but not sure)

my 75 is at 15 dKH but its steady and calcium is at 420ppm.


either your test kit is really whacked or your doing the test
wrong/reading
it wrong.

I highly recommend salifert test kits for alk and ca. if you don't want
to
get new kits get someone else to test it (lfs maybe) and see what you
really
have. if its bad off its best to do a water change to get it close then
add
what is needed to get it to the level you want to keep.

after you get the levels you want to keep, you monitor it daily to see if
alk dropped, if so add part A of the B-Ionic and an equal amount of the B
part. up the dose daily till your alk levels don't drop. then test
calcium, it should be in the ball park of where it should be if not you
may
have to adjust part B to fix it, then recheck the alk again to double
check
it, ca effects alk and vise/versa.

hth
kc



"Peter Pan" wrote in message
...
Can any one please tell me what the Alkalinity and Hardness levels
should
be. I have a 75 Gal tank

I took the Alkalinity readings and got 170 ppm
and Hardness is well over 2000 ppm and Calcium of 2600ppm

Im using the Lamotte test kits and stopped after filling the solution
10X
and the color still did not change. ( i did the test twice to enusre i
was
doing it correctly).

How far off are my levels and where should they be. I have B-Ionic
Calcium
Buffer System to help with the levels... Im just not sure how much of
each
to add at this point

Thanks

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