Calcium problems.

[StirCrazy]

Originally posted by Superfudge:
Bump up co2 and effluent rates both preportionatly(sp?) and monitor results.

Alk should stay (close) to the same while Ca ++ levels will rise.

I would refrain from adding any Mg until yor reactor has been dialed in to meet your demands.
Then it may be a better time to test, and add if needed.

What is your alk and Ca++ now?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">well I dialed it in and it is steady my tank alk is 10.7 and my effulent alk is 22. my feed rate is 2 gph and I am running 60 bbpm.
my tank Ca is up today from last reading by another 10 ppm for a whopping 210ppm the effulent ca level is 380 ppm, the effulant values have been stable for over a week and the tank Alk has been stable sence I hooked the reactor up (almost two weeks ago) the only changing varable is the Ca wich isn't responding as it should..

my Mg tests today confermed what I thought and I will bring it up vary slowly to ~1200 ppm whare everything I have read says it should be at a min.. also documents show that levels of 800 and less can lead to Ca crashes so I want to get safe from that at the least..

Steve

[ 15 September 2002, 21:58: Message edited by: StirCrazy ]