Pic of my 50 gallon

[Josh23]

Wow.
Thats a little bit of reading material.
Thansk for the link. Ill have to give it a good readover when I get a couple minutes to myself.

Josh

[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

[MitchM]

Here's a simple one...:

http://www.andy-hipkiss.freeserve.co.uk/caalkcalc.htm

Mitch 8)

[EmilyB]

Yes Josh.

It should follow the graph, or closely, at the beginning...although sps keepers push the alk...

Where it should be? Well, I would expect to begin with the normal values for your saltwater mix. link

[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.

[Canadian Man]

sorry Mitch you got a "Bad Gateway" :P
Click on the link and see what I mean

[EmilyB]

Not to disagree, but adding more things is not the best way to get back in balance. If you want to do that after, fine. First, get the Ca and Alk in balance with water changes with a good salt mix.

[Josh23]

Thanks again.

Im going to play around with it a little this weekend when I do a water change. Ill let you all know how it turns out.

thanks for all your input
Josh

Hope to have some improved pictures for yous soon.

[Canadian Man]

Originally Posted by EmilyB

Not to disagree, but adding more things is not the best way to get back in balance. If you want to do that after, fine. First, get the Ca and Alk in balance with water changes with a good salt mix.

I do agree with you on the waterchange to get things back in balance Deb, But with a calcium level that low it will take one large waterchange to bring it back to normal. I suppose it's only a 50g tank though so it's only 1/4 of a bucket. I'll put my tounge back in my mouth now

[MitchM]

:?

Link works....waddayatalkinbout?

Mitch