Calcium too high? Yikes!

[kstaley12]

Testing this morning in preparation for some corals to arrive and my Ca was 525. Is this too high and if so, how can I lower it? I am using Red Sea Coral Pro salt.

Temp: 76.3
S.G 1.025
pH 8.
Alk 10.1
Ammonia 0.0
Phosphates 0.0
Nitrate 4.48
Calcium 525

Currently the tank is housing some snails. Adding some corals today, I have 2 fish in QT waiting to be transferred over. Tank is a RS Reeferr 200xl.

Thanks for your input guys!

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Hi there, ive just used tropic marin pro reef and my parameters are a little out of whack. mainly calcium which is reading 570+ppm. is this okay?

my parameters are as follows:
salinity 1.025
temp 25.7 celcius
phosphate 0.5
cal 570
alk 7.9/8.0 over two tests
mag 1380
nitrate 4.8

Are you dosing calcium? if not, test error seems more likely than calcium at that level.