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02-08-2010, 04:50 AM
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awesome, thanks. I will swing by Ocean City on my way home from work and pick one up. I've got 4 reasonable sized acro colonies, a couple smaller acro frags, a smallish superman montipora colony and a bigger purple montipora. I also have some sort of thick, glow in the dark green shelf style colony that has a really thick skeleton (girl at big al's didn't know what it was, but it's wicked), a brand new australian purple pink chalice frag, a trumpet coral colony that glows in the dark with 5 major branches and about 10 sub branches, a branching frogspawn that has been growing like a weed (it's started with three heads in November and two of them are in the process of splitting so it will have 5 shortly) and an aussie elegance coral that has put on about a half inch of width since november. When I type it out it sounds like I have more than I thought I did.
If I hadn't already blown my entire life's budget I'd buy a calc reactor and be done with it... but you can only make so many 500 dollar purchases at a time. 
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02-08-2010, 08:42 AM
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Stay away from the diluted bottled calcium supplements, they're a waste of money. I'm willing to bet that you could dump the entire thing into your tank and it would hardly budge your calcium level. Calcium Chloride is a much more cost effective way of raising calcium and is what is used in two part supplementing schemes along with Sodium Bicarbonate (baking soda) for alkalinity.
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02-09-2010, 04:52 AM
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So I went out and bought the Elos KH and calcium tests to go along with their magnesium test and wow... the other test kits were way off the mark. the Elos kit, with it's REALLY specific and obvious end points showed a calcium of 410 and a dKH of 13. I thought my dKH was low and in fact it's high. Glad I didn't add any carbonate today! Now as soon as my lab grade calcium chloride arrives in the mail I'm set
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