"Soji John" wrote in message
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Mandarin333 wrote:

Subject: Calcium Test Kit Woes.
From: Marc Levenson
Date: 10/1/04 1:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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Take a fresh sample of your water to the LFS and have them
test it for you. Bring along your kits if you like, so they
can show you how to get a reading.

Marc



Thanks Marc but these people are so incompetent that they should be
bringing
their water to me to test. I have never had this problem before I
started
using Southdown sand. I used to test regularly and had no problems with
RedSea's kit. I'm thinking of cutting the sample with 50% distilled
water and
then just doubling my results.

-M333


You know, I am using Southdown also (just started a new tank). This
may be the reason I am getting high values as well. I've spoken with
others who use Oceanic salt and they don't have as high calcium as I
do. It may be the aragonite dissolving in the water to give high Ca?


Maybe you may need to wait abit and see if anything settle. Keep on regular
water changes with RO/DI or any purified water. After three week or so, test
the water spec. and see what show.

CapFusion,...