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Old 03-08-2015, 03:25 PM
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what test kit did you use? how can you have more calcium and same amount of MG 5 days after? did you add anything during that 5 days? If you are using API test kit then trash it. As for dosing you got to manually add it first then test it every single day to see how much your tank consume. Every tank is different so you got to play around with the amount of dosing and testing a few days or week before you get it right.
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Old 03-08-2015, 04:13 PM
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if your tank uses up alkalinity wont the calcium go up then too? i use hanna tester for phos and Salifert for cal and mag
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Old 03-08-2015, 06:59 PM
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if your tank uses up alkalinity wont the calcium go up then too? i use hanna tester for phos and Salifert for cal and mag
No they are used in a fixed ratio , so your drop in Alk should have had a drop in calcium of about 20ppm , calcium does not raise by adding alkalinity the only way for calcium to rise is to add calcium , so it's either being added somewhere or the test itself is off either from user error or the kits testing noise
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