Turbo Calcium

[StirCrazy]

Bring your MG to proper levels first and your Ca will raise a bit. then tune your Ca. oh and like Brad said, throw away the teaspoon and get a measuring cup

Steve

[Johnny Reefer]

Ya. Looks like I need about 8 tsp a day over 10 days. Good thing I bought a pound of the stuff. Wonder why the heck Kent would say to start off with 1/8 tsp per 50 gal. That is just waaaay not enough. 8 tsp/day, for my system, is 16x that! They are losin' my respect fast. (Not that I had any for them to begin with, as I just recently started buying their products. Two buckets salt, one good one bad, and this Turbo Calcium).

Steve,
I want to get the Ca part way up first. I think some of my LPS are suffering from the 215 ppm Ca.

Thanks guys and cheers,

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by Johnny Reefer

I want to get the Ca part way up first. I think some of my LPS are suffering from the 215 ppm Ca.

Do what Steve says. He knows what he's talking about.

Your lps are suffering from both low Ca and Mg. BTW, what's your alk? If your alk is off, it will need to be addressed while you're adjusting the other two.

[Johnny Reefer]

Alk is 8.4 dKH.

Cheers,

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Johnny Reefer

Alk is 8.4 dKH.

Cheers,

thats a normal range, lower than I like but nothing to worry about..

Steve

[RonPeter]

As was already stated keep an eye on your alk as well....as you raise your calcium your alk will have a tendancy to drop, you need to adjust both accordingly. I have used Kent turbo caclium and super dkh for over a year with no problems. I only have a 65 gallon tank though...your size of tank you might want to consider a calcium reactor once you get everything up to snuff.

[Johnny Reefer]

Originally Posted by RonPeter

...your size of tank you might want to consider a calcium reactor once you get everything up to snuff.

Thanx. That's a good idea. It'll have to wait, however. Have other priorities on the shelf. 1). Better skimmer. (Running a Prism Pro Deluxe right now and it just ain't cuttin' it). 2). RO/DI. 3). Move to a more secure (read concrete and steel) building. Oh, and one of these days I'd like to maybe afford some, uh, livestock. Ya, livestock.....that'd be good. If I'd known this hobby was going to be so expensive, when I first started, I would have seriously reconsidered. (Ya, right). Well...too far into it now. (That's my excuse and I'm stickin' to it!).

Cheers,

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Johnny Reefer

Ya. Looks like I need about 8 tsp a day over 10 days. Good thing I bought a pound of the stuff. Wonder why the heck Kent would say to start off with 1/8 tsp per 50 gal. That is just waaaay not enough. 8 tsp/day, for my system, is 16x that! They are losin' my respect fast. (Not that I had any for them to begin with, as I just recently started buying their products. Two buckets salt, one good one bad, and this Turbo Calcium).

Steve,
I want to get the Ca part way up first. I think some of my LPS are suffering from the 215 ppm Ca.

Thanks guys and cheers,

you can do a single addition to your Mg to bring it up.. not that much of a change.. I would for get the 8tsp/day thing and go 1 cup the day after you bring up your Mg, and the next day after that add another .6666666666 of a cup or if you are concerned about raising Ca by about 140ppm in 1 hour then just do 1/2 a cup a day ... I have raised Ca over 200ppm in one shot several times and not had a problem..

If you add the 1 cup.. do a Ca test the next day about the same time and recalculate you measurments first.. as I will guess you Ca will jump up about 20 to 30 PPm just from bringing your Mg up to 1350 to 1400

Steve

[Johnny Reefer]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

you can do a single addition to your Mg to bring it up.. not that much of a change.. I would for get the 8tsp/day thing and go 1 cup the day after you bring up your Mg, and the next day after that add another .6666666666 of a cup or if you are concerned about raising Ca by about 140ppm in 1 hour then just do 1/2 a cup a day ... I have raised Ca over 200ppm in one shot several times and not had a problem..

If you add the 1 cup.. do a Ca test the next day about the same time and recalculate you measurments first.. as I will guess you Ca will jump up about 20 to 30 PPm just from bringing your Mg up to 1350 to 1400

Steve

That sounds much better than dosing every day for an eternity.

Thanx heaps,