Best Calcium additive
 

My 29g tank has Calcium at 370 ppm, and Alkalinity at 11 dkh (both with Salifert kits). I need to dose calcium and wanted to see if there are recommentdations for a particular product. I am considering one of the following:

- Salifert Coral Calcium
- Kent Liquid Calcium
- Seachem Reef Calcium (contains polygluconate, not recommended ??)

Thanks

I recently used the Seachem product to boost my ca after shutting down my kalc reactor. No problems with the product.

I prefer using seachem also. At least there additives do what they say they are going to do.

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I use Kent Turbo Calcium. It is pure Calcium chloride and is the most concentrated additive I've found yet. A couple of tsp would boost a 29 galon tank like 75-100 ppm.

Turbo Calcium here, too. Concentrated, cheap, easy.

I use Seachem's Calcium (powder form), and while it works, I am not impressed with the powder form. When I open the jar, and scoop out product it often leads to small powder clouds.

I also have Seachem's liquid version, although it is only supposed to maintain calcium. I find that the cost isn't justified for this product.

In general I find the powered product works better, and is more cost efficient. The trade off is that it is messy to work with, and it makes me uncomfortable to know that I'm breathing in chemicals.

have you checked your magnesium lately?

Tums :D

Not really, as I do not have a magnesium test kit. It is next on my list but has to wait for some time.

NICE! Have you tried rolaids? Or better yet, have you tried kent for hartburn?