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Old 03-15-2006, 02:21 AM
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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

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Old 03-15-2006, 02:44 AM
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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.

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