Calcium Test Troubles.

Keep doing the test untill you would reach over 700ppm, I had to do that on
mine when I first started. Since then I have it sorted out.

You might have a high level since you started off, if you still don't get
any change after the 700ppm worth of drops of part #B then I guess you can
assume it's low. Also I would drop some calcium into the test kit befor you
dump it to see if it picks it up.


"Mandarin333" wrote in message
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Hi again all. I got my 90 set up with the southdown sand and it cleared
after
much diatom filtration. I just tested the calcium levels for the first
time
today using RedSea's kit. The problem is that I couldn't get a result. I
followed the directions exactly but the sample would not change from pink
to
orange it just got darker red as I added more and more of reagent B.
After
twelve or more drops I gave up. Any idea what the problem is? I'm
thinking
that there is a hell of alot of calcium in the water but it ain't snowing
or
precipitating out. Could the southdown sand and all that fine silt be
screwing
up the test?

-M333