KyleH
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I haven't been really good lately, so my water problems may have been there for a while. I finally got off my duff when I got tired at looking at my pulsing xenias not doing anything--even though everything looked okay.
I found out that my calcium dropped down to 350, so I grabbed a little kalk and *bam* it went up to 500 with very minimal dosing (a little Kalk goes a long way). But the xenia looked so-so and the LPS did not look a "full" as they use to when they get a bunch of kalk, so I checked and noticed that my KH was at 7.
I got the KH up to 8, but for the last few days, I have been trying to get it up to like 9 or 10 without much success. And I don't want to over do it. I'm dosing a little KH each day as it seems to be slipping 0.5 each day. When it is dose in the morning, it seems to stay at about 8-8.5 for the day, but the next day, it slips a little to 7.5-8.
The xenia are better (never got them "pumping" like they are in the LFS), the LPS are plump and probably "stoned" from the calcium. (ha! pun intended).
My calcium is about 450-500 without any slippage. Does anyone have a suggestion on what may be absorbing some of the KH? I am thinking it is simply reacting to the excess calcium in the tank and falling out. If that is the case, I will let the calcium slip down a little. Is anyone else running a high calcium levels having problems with KH?
My ph is on the higher side of normal with the help of the Kalk, that is why I am not really worried. And it seem the corals are doing great, so I am not really needing the KH buffering. But, the xenia seems to like it just a "little" more when the KH (seachem's reef builder) is being dripped into the system.
I need to grab a Magnesium test to see if I am missing something there. So besides checking magnesium, and understanding that high calcium levels will lower KH, are there any suggestions from anyone?
-KyleH
I found out that my calcium dropped down to 350, so I grabbed a little kalk and *bam* it went up to 500 with very minimal dosing (a little Kalk goes a long way). But the xenia looked so-so and the LPS did not look a "full" as they use to when they get a bunch of kalk, so I checked and noticed that my KH was at 7.
I got the KH up to 8, but for the last few days, I have been trying to get it up to like 9 or 10 without much success. And I don't want to over do it. I'm dosing a little KH each day as it seems to be slipping 0.5 each day. When it is dose in the morning, it seems to stay at about 8-8.5 for the day, but the next day, it slips a little to 7.5-8.
The xenia are better (never got them "pumping" like they are in the LFS), the LPS are plump and probably "stoned" from the calcium. (ha! pun intended).
My calcium is about 450-500 without any slippage. Does anyone have a suggestion on what may be absorbing some of the KH? I am thinking it is simply reacting to the excess calcium in the tank and falling out. If that is the case, I will let the calcium slip down a little. Is anyone else running a high calcium levels having problems with KH?
My ph is on the higher side of normal with the help of the Kalk, that is why I am not really worried. And it seem the corals are doing great, so I am not really needing the KH buffering. But, the xenia seems to like it just a "little" more when the KH (seachem's reef builder) is being dripped into the system.
I need to grab a Magnesium test to see if I am missing something there. So besides checking magnesium, and understanding that high calcium levels will lower KH, are there any suggestions from anyone?
-KyleH
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