Jesus Murphy, How did it get so high!

[AquaticFinatic]

Originally Posted by George

API calcium test kit known to be inaccurate, usually reads high. I will suggestion you testing it with a different test kit (elos, hanna, or salifert), or bring your water to your LFS and ask them to test it for you, using one of higher quality test kits.

Lol our lfs uses the API so I wouldn't be better off

[Brandon5555]

Hmmm, ive retested and my reading is the same. I thought my maxima clam would be suckin it out

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Brandon5555

Hmmm, ive retested and my reading is the same. I thought my maxima clam would be suckin it out

A single clam isn't going to move the Ca level at all. And if it's that high for real, the chemistry might be so messed up that nothing can use it anyway. But I'm pretty certain it's not really that high.