HELP: Over dosed mag

[andys]

Hi

Well I screwed up. 40 gal frag tank. measured 1280 mag and for some reason I dosed 60 mil Red Sea Mag. Now off the chart. what the heck should i do?

 

[bif24701]

You could do a water change but high Mag shouldn't be too much of a problem.

 

[cmcoker]

How many galloms is your tank?
Red sea magnesium liquid says
1ml will raise the Mg level of 100 liters (25gal) by 1ppm.

So unless it's a nano, I'd suspect testing error..

 

[andys]

Ya. I just started mixing another 100 gal. It's going to be several hours. Everything was doing great in there. Ya think there maybe any issues ?

 

[andys]

40 Gal

 

[cmcoker]

40 Gal

Ha missed that in first post. If your using red sea liquid magnesium it should not have made it go off chart reading. What test kit, many report high levels being erroneously reported with the red sea kit.

I would retest the level maybe and see if you can repeat the reading.

Snails may be affected if it is really high but people will raise their mag levels to fight off bryopsis.

#reefsquad, any concerns here?

 

[john.m.cole3]

Let it ride. keep an eye on your Alk and calc. mag auto regulates itself witb weekly water changes for me

 

[andys]

Just retested. found my issue. used 4ml of water when i should of used 2ml. (put down the Alcohol)

 

[jsker]

Let it ride. keep an eye on your Alk and calc. mag auto regulates itself witb weekly water changes for me

+1 let ride.

 

[cmcoker]

Just retested. found my issue. used 4ml of water when i should of used 2ml. (put down the Alcohol)

Excellent!

 

[john.m.cole3]

Hahaha!

 

[andys]

Man I feel like a heal

 

[RainboWBacoN420]

As bif24701 said, high magnesium shouldn't be that much of a problem. At work, we've over dosed on mag on a few of our systems, and everything has been absolutely the same.

 

[Tautog]

It's ok, and I like heals of bread, yep, I'm a baker
Your ok now, but watch Ca and KH, the extra Mg will affect your other parameters