Alkalinity Too High

[dubkie]

Hi everyone. My Alkalinity seems to keep raising, but not in line with my Calcium. I know that if Alk gets too high, Ca will drop. My Alk is testing at 14.2 and my Ca at 415. I run a calcium reactor and have Kalk dosed with my ATO (about 3 gallons a day). Should I be concerned? Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Darsh]

May seem obvious but it sounds like the reactor and kalk might be overkill. Do you have a heavily stocked tank?

 

[dubkie]

Yea, at least i thought so... two clams, mainly SPS, some LPS.

210 Gal display, frag tank, refugium, 90 gal sump, total volume about 350 gal or so.

 

[Darsh]

If it were me, I would stop dosing kalk or halve the amount and try to bring the Alk down slowly.

 

[Uncle99]

Hi everyone. My Alkalinity seems to keep raising, but not in line with my Calcium. I know that if Alk gets too high, Ca will drop. My Alk is testing at 14.2 and my Ca at 415. I run a calcium reactor and have Kalk dosed with my ATO (about 3 gallons a day). Should I be concerned? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Make sure your MG is 1350-1440ppm range or you may get strange inconsistencies with ALK and CA testing.

 

[dieselkeeper]

I would test nutrients. High alk with 0 nitrates lead to tips burnt on SPS.