I have been battling very high calcium for around 1 month now (677 today). Previously the Calcium was very stable between 420 and 450.
I had stopped all dosing of any kind for a few weeks, im now doing alk and mag because they were getting too low but my calcium just keeps climbing. I think it might be the rock scape as I have eliminated everything else.
My Trident tests the alk, mag and calcium but I have also been double checking the calcium with a red sea calcium pro test and that only goes up to 500 and no colour change in the fluid confirms how high my calcium is, I have checked some freshly mixed salt water, tropic marin pro salt and the calcium is 420. I have also been doing weekly 10% water changes and it has no impact at all, the calcium keeps rising.
Any suggestions on changing my scape safely without losing corals or fish and keeping the cycle phase to a minimum, or should I just do a full re set?
My Tank parameters are:
RSR525xl - age 6 months - Mixed Reef
Alk - 9.02 Trident
Calcium- 677 Trident & Red Sea Pro
Magnesium - 1243 Trident
Nitrate - 8 hanna (diluted)
Phosphate - 0.09 Hanna
Orp - 373 - Apex
PH - 7.9 Apex
Salinity - 1.025 Apex
Temp - 25.1 Apex
Thanks
I had stopped all dosing of any kind for a few weeks, im now doing alk and mag because they were getting too low but my calcium just keeps climbing. I think it might be the rock scape as I have eliminated everything else.
My Trident tests the alk, mag and calcium but I have also been double checking the calcium with a red sea calcium pro test and that only goes up to 500 and no colour change in the fluid confirms how high my calcium is, I have checked some freshly mixed salt water, tropic marin pro salt and the calcium is 420. I have also been doing weekly 10% water changes and it has no impact at all, the calcium keeps rising.
Any suggestions on changing my scape safely without losing corals or fish and keeping the cycle phase to a minimum, or should I just do a full re set?
My Tank parameters are:
RSR525xl - age 6 months - Mixed Reef
Alk - 9.02 Trident
Calcium- 677 Trident & Red Sea Pro
Magnesium - 1243 Trident
Nitrate - 8 hanna (diluted)
Phosphate - 0.09 Hanna
Orp - 373 - Apex
PH - 7.9 Apex
Salinity - 1.025 Apex
Temp - 25.1 Apex
Thanks