Calcium levels over 600.......what is best to do?

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by BlueTang<3

Add more corals they will gobble that up.

Are you saying Wes not to worry about it & to just let it go down naturally buy consumption?

Originally Posted by Werbo

Stir your sand 2x a day otherwise it will turn to concrete-ish if your Ca is really 600+

My cal is really that high and it has not affected the sand one bit

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by The Grizz

My cal is really that high and it has not affected the sand one bit

Not an overnight thing, but will eventually happen if left too long. I know, I pulled a sand bed out of my 90 in three large pieces

Other than that, not a huge problem, minus potential damage to pumps in the long term, but if you add a lot of coral, it will eventually go down.
But, a water change is a quick and easy fix.

[The Grizz]

Going to try a water rotation with my other tank as I know the calcium level is low in it.

[reeferfulton]

Wait!!

Do a Google search for red sea pro calcium text kit recall.

I bought the same kit a month back and got the bad calcium reagent ( as per the recall)
It read from 50-75 high.
I have since got a new red sea reagent.
I still find that it reads about 20 higher then salient fyi
Hope that's your issue

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by reeferfulton

Wait!!

Do a Google search for red sea pro calcium text kit recall.

I bought the same kit a month back and got the bad calcium reagent ( as per the recall)
It read from 50-75 high.
I have since got a new red sea reagent.
I still find that it reads about 20 higher then salient fyi
Hope that's your issue

Not the issue, checked the lot # and it is not in the list of recalled regents. Also tested with an API & Elos kits.

Did a water relocation between my big tanks and got it down to 500 now.

[reeferfulton]

Awe shucks.

[Smudge]

I just went through the same thing with my Red Sea Test Kit. My readings were 380 and I was increasing my dosing. In the end I was well over 500 and my kit still read 380. I stopped dosing and it took over 2 weeks for the level to drop to 400. New Red Sea Test kit compares to my Salifert one now. Mine was not in the recall range as well.

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by Smudge

I just went through the same thing with my Red Sea Test Kit. My readings were 380 and I was increasing my dosing. In the end I was well over 500 and my kit still read 380. I stopped dosing and it took over 2 weeks for the level to drop to 400. New Red Sea Test kit compares to my Salifert one now. Mine was not in the recall range as well.

I would suspect the Red Sea kit if my other kits readings where different but they where exactly the same.

Tested again after my water swap with all 3 kits, all read 500.

Also checked the expire date on all the kits as well, not even close to the date of expire.

Will do another water swap tomorrow night.