Derek,
You were right. Alk was high. I should have known. I get to dependent on my
pH readings, and dont follow the steps I should. Now, heres the thing. After
I do a couple of huge water changes over the weekend and sort of "reset" the
system, what should my approach to re starting the alk/calcium thing be?
Should I let the system settle for a week or so, should I begin testing and
adding right away? Full doses do you think? I guess I need to be doing alk
and calcium tests every day. That sucks, and it is expensive, so I was
hoping to avoid it, but it looks like that is going to be the only way for
me to keep tabs on it properly.
By the way, the do not recommend adding the alk and calcium together, but I
dont do that anyways. I add my calcium in the morning in one large dose, and
drip the alk throughout the day.
Thanks,
Shane
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek W [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 11:37 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Yet another calcium problem/question....
>
> I would double check your alk and see if it's getting high, might be
> keeping
> the calcium down. Do a couple big water changes to help restore the
> buffering balance. Also, do they recommend using the buffer with the TM?
> Derek
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shane Clays" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 11:09 AM
> Subject: Yet another calcium problem/question....
>
>
> > All,
> > I recently began using Tropic Marin calcium (powdered form). When I
> began
> > using it, my calcium was at about 420. When I switched over to the TM,
> my
> > calcium stayed in that range. I continued to dose my alk buffer at the
> same
> > amount (which keeps my alk at 4.6ish (meqs) and pH at about 8.3). Well,
> > recently, my calcium began to drop. I thought maybe the animals were
> using
> > it up a little more quickly, hoping that it was just a quality, highly
> > bio-available product. So, I began dosing a bit more. I have been
> testing
> > every morning, at the same time and the calcium is steadily dropping at
> > about 20 ppm a day. I am now down to about 340 ppm and am adding more
> and
> > more every day. Yesterday, I added 1.5 times the dose and this morning,
> I
> > added twice the recommended dose, which should raise the calcium about
> 56
> > ppm.
> >
> > When I add the calcium, my pH immediate begins to drop, which seems to
> be
> an
> > indicator that the calcium is "being recognized" by the system, and the
> > buffering capacity in the tank. By the end of the day, my pH is back up
> to
> > normal, but when I test the next morning my calcium is down, and now,
> way
> > down. I also noticed a white line in my sump, which appears to be
> calcium,
> > but I add the calcium to my sump, so I figured that is why there was a
> > buildup there.
> >
> > The bottle says that you may notice a drop in calcium when switching
> > products, and I am hoping that is all that is going on here, but I am
> not
> > sure I am comfortable just leaving it at that.
> >
> > Any thoughts or suggestions anyone???
> >
> > TIA,
> > Shane C.
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