calcium too high!!!!

cpbirds407

cpbirds407

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Hello! I have a 29 gal bio cube and I just tested my calcium and its waaay higher than 500 ppm Everything looks fine but, will this affect anything? Im not sure on what to do. Last time I added calcium was two days ago. I normally don't measure the amount that I put in the tank and I don't often test the calium. I know that it's pretty stupid and I know that from now on I will start douing it by the book!!! But in the mean time... what do i do? Water Change to dilute it?
 
thangbom

thangbom

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test you ph and alk.. if they are in line then just dose the alk till the calk is in range again. then, dose in equal parts again.. just dont do anything to drastic to the water parm... if you are werry.. do a cuple of small WC till you are in range again..
GL
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pondy

pondy

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I dont understand how the alk can be high and the calcium is high but he ph is the only one low. Huh, When I have had my calcium high both the alk and ph were low. and vice a versa. I would try to raise the ph, maybe by using baking soda or something, but I dont know if that will rase your alk as well. Kinda got me stumped.
 
cpbirds407

cpbirds407

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Yes Pondy! Thats my biggest issue! In over7 years doing this I have never had this problem!!! I'm glad I'm not the onlyone stumped. :)
 
pondy

pondy

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do you think it would work if you mixed some washing soda,(cooked baking soda) into some RO water and dosed your tank with that to bring you ALk down? I am not quite sure on what that would do to your ph but I do know that it should bring you alk down. It should bring your ph down too, but I dont know because your alk is so high, what do you think?
 
cpbirds407

cpbirds407

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Thats what I thought. then I tested the alk again with salifert test kit then with api's test kit and both gave me extra high readings!!!
 
cpbirds407

cpbirds407

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YOu know Pondy, I'm really not sure. I'm kinda skeptical when it comes to using these "home" remedies. I know that baking soda does raise your PH but I've never tried it myself. Also... if I lower the Ph even more, would it shock the corals and fish? PH right now its 7.8 Should I lower it more?? I don't think is safe. What do you think?
 
cpbirds407

cpbirds407

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YOu know... I couldn't tell you. Have you ever tried the salifert test kit? YOu kno that you have to use the skinny seringe with the pointy tip... Well its supposed to take no more than one full seringe for the color to change... well it took 1 and 1/2 seringe for color to change!!! So... I really don't know how to do that math.
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geoj

geoj

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To be safe I would do a water change, but I have a hard time trusting the test
I think the only way it could be right is if you had really high phosphate and magnesium
 
geoj

geoj

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The phosphate will throw off the pH-KH-CO2 relationship. I don't know if it would knock it out like this at .25 but if you remove it we shell see.
 
emm0909

emm0909

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Water changes can solve most problems. Dosing can get you in trouble if youre not 100% sure what it's going to do.
 
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