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I am stupid, Calcium way to high. Please help
I have recently been having troubles with my 29g biocube. It has been up for over a year now and i have never had anu deaths till this month. then in a week span both my cleaner shrimp, my clowfish, and my yellow tailed damsel all die. Cyno wreacked havoc on my tanks and a few of my corals are a shadow of there former selves. I feared my tank was crashing but after checking my water i discovered nothing was high but phosphates and they were still at acceptable levels.
However i have not checked my calcium in a long time, i had a routine calcium adding time and i never really checked for a while. Well I went out and bought a calcium test kit (lost the old one) and checked and my calcium was at 840 ppm!!!!!!! Is this the reason my tank has been having problems and what do i do to safley drop the levels. Also I have been having a hard time keeping my ph over 8 Lesson learned alway test. |
What brand of test kit are you using?
Regular waterchanges should drop the levels. |
I am useing the nutrafin test kit. I took it into the store for them to test as well and they got the same numbers :cry:
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id check to make shure a fresh batch of saltwater dosnt have a crazy number also just incase its a bad batch of salt or something and if its normal start doin waterchanges.
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the salt mix is fine, this is a case of my overdoseing and not testing. I am just wondering if this is the reason for my shrimp and fish dieing or could there be another problem
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i would assume it could be killing things either from the high calcium or the effects the high calcium are having on other factors. since its only a 29g tank i would start doin 5g changes every day untill thing are normal.
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water changes.
Guess depends on your Alk but sort of surprised you could get your Ca that high without a precipitation event. |
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