Pic of my 50 gallon

[Canadian Man]

Originally Posted by Josh23

well I read the second link that was provided and I find it a little like reading french. Not that Im not thankfull for what you provided but its a little over my head. Is there not a simple way to determine where your Alk and Ca should be.

JOsh

Alk ~8 to 10 dkh I keep mine at 3.4meq/l to 4.0meq/l
Calcium anywhere above 400.

The problem some people run into is trying to raise their calcium level when it is at 280 for example and their dkh is allready at 10dkh.
If you use kalk then every 1.0meq/l increase in alk is a 20mg/l increase in calcium. So you have to raise just your calcium to the right level to try to get it into balance.

sorry about the jump from dkh to meq/l so often. I test in meq/l.