kreach
Active Member
After the reccomendations I received on this board, I went out and purchased a test kit for Calicum, KH/Alk and Nitrate. The new test kits are Salifert kits.
I tested my water tonight, did the tests twice to be sure... and these are the results I got with the new kits.
Nitrate - 100+ ppm
Calcium - 500+ ppm
KH - 16.0+
Alk - 5.71+
Everything was off the charts!!!!
I used my other test kits (not Salifert) to test my water for the other parameters and got these:
Ammonia - 0.0
Nitrite - 0.0
Phosphate - 0.5
PH - 8.4
Salinity - 1.025
A little high on phosphates (working on that) but ammonia, nitrite, PH and salinity are normal.
We are having NO problems with our tank at this point. All the corals are happy and open, no unusual amount of algae, fish are doing fine.
If our nitrate, calcium and KH/Alk levels were really that high, shouldn't we be having some sort of problem with the tank?
I tested my water tonight, did the tests twice to be sure... and these are the results I got with the new kits.
Nitrate - 100+ ppm
Calcium - 500+ ppm
KH - 16.0+
Alk - 5.71+
Everything was off the charts!!!!
I used my other test kits (not Salifert) to test my water for the other parameters and got these:
Ammonia - 0.0
Nitrite - 0.0
Phosphate - 0.5
PH - 8.4
Salinity - 1.025
A little high on phosphates (working on that) but ammonia, nitrite, PH and salinity are normal.
We are having NO problems with our tank at this point. All the corals are happy and open, no unusual amount of algae, fish are doing fine.
If our nitrate, calcium and KH/Alk levels were really that high, shouldn't we be having some sort of problem with the tank?