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January 30th 05, 03:46 AM
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Calcium
I bought a calcium test kit that you add a drops of the test liquid and then count them until the water turns from pink to violet. According to my calculations my levels are between 520 and 540! Is this too high? I read that they should be between 400 and 450. What will happen if I leave it at this level? TIA ps.. This is a great group. Always friendly and willing to help. I can't wait till I learn enough to be able to contribute myself 
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January 30th 05, 04:17 AM
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Are you using Oceanic salt?
Marc DeeOooGee wrote: I bought a calcium test kit that you add a drops of the test liquid and then count them until the water turns from pink to violet. According to my calculations my levels are between 520 and 540! Is this too high? I read that they should be between 400 and 450. What will happen if I leave it at this level? TIA ps.. This is a great group. Always friendly and willing to help. I can't wait till I learn enough to be able to contribute myself -- Personal Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com/oanda/index.html Business Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com Marine Hobbyist: http://www.melevsreef.com
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January 30th 05, 08:27 AM
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"Marc Levenson" wrote in message om... Are you using Oceanic salt? Marc snip -- Personal Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com/oanda/index.html Business Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com Marine Hobbyist: http://www.melevsreef.com I bought several boxes of Catalina Water Company Real Ocean Pure Natural Seawater. I've used this for the first 3 months of water changes (my original water was made with Instant Ocean salt). I found a great place to buy RO water ($0.25 per gallon), so I had just purchased more Instant Ocean salt and plan on using that from now on.
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January 30th 05, 10:37 AM
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Really depends. The first thing I would suggest you do is that you have
somebody else test your calcium and see if they get the same results as you do. If you calcium is really that high, it is not really a problem other than you could have other ions out of balance. You could also have a problem with calcium precipation on pumps/powerheads etc. You need to check your alkalinity and see what it is at. Normally if you have calcium levels this high and a normal alkalinity you will have a major precipation event. kim DeeOooGee wrote: I bought a calcium test kit that you add a drops of the test liquid and then count them until the water turns from pink to violet. According to my calculations my levels are between 520 and 540! Is this too high? I read that they should be between 400 and 450. What will happen if I leave it at this level? TIA ps.. This is a great group. Always friendly and willing to help. I can't wait till I learn enough to be able to contribute myself
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January 30th 05, 02:09 PM
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Why do you mention the oceanic Marc?
Marc Levenson wrote: Are you using Oceanic salt? Marc DeeOooGee wrote: I bought a calcium test kit that you add a drops of the test liquid and then count them until the water turns from pink to violet. According to my calculations my levels are between 520 and 540! Is this too high? I read that they should be between 400 and 450. What will happen if I leave it at this level? TIA ps.. This is a great group. Always friendly and willing to help. I can't wait till I learn enough to be able to contribute myself
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January 30th 05, 05:13 PM
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Oceanic salt give us high readings, especially if the
salinity is 1.026 Marc selgado wrote: Why do you mention the oceanic Marc? Marc Levenson wrote: Are you using Oceanic salt? Marc -- Personal Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com/oanda/index.html Business Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com Marine Hobbyist: http://www.melevsreef.com
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#7
January 30th 05, 07:22 PM
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Check your alkalinity.... with Ca that high there has to be some other ion
out of wack... and in a salt tank it is the alkalinity that most often balances this out. Tre' "DeeOooGee" wrote in message news:tMYKd.26368$yY6.7540@attbi_s02... I bought a calcium test kit that you add a drops of the test liquid and then count them until the water turns from pink to violet. According to my calculations my levels are between 520 and 540! Is this too high? I read that they should be between 400 and 450. What will happen if I leave it at this level? TIA ps.. This is a great group. Always friendly and willing to help. I can't wait till I learn enough to be able to contribute myself
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