Calcium 500+ and Alkalinity 6.5

[kashman100]

I switched to Jaebo dosing pumps 2 months ago for dosing 2 part. I calibrated both dosing pumps and everything was fine for a while. I took a 2 week vacation and noticed the calcium was being used up faster. So now I tested and came up with calcium 500+ with red sea(Maybe 700+ because I used a full syringe and another half before the color changed). And 6.5 Alkalinity. I have Sps, Lps and anemones and it all looks great. Should I just stop dosing the calcium and test daily until it falls back into range? Other suggestions? My Alk was running at 8.5 consistantly before this.

 

[kashman100]

I switched to Jaebo dosing pumps 2 months ago for dosing 2 part. I calibrated both dosing pumps and everything was fine for a while. I took a 2 week vacation and noticed the calcium was being used up faster. So now I tested and came up with calcium 500+ with red sea(Maybe 700+ because I used a full syringe and another half before the color changed). And 6.5 Alkalinity. I have Sps, Lps and anemones and it all looks great. Should I just stop dosing the calcium and test daily until it falls back into range? Other suggestions? My Alk was running at 8.5 consistantly before this.

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[alex77619]

I got in the same situation like u too. But I’m using Ca Reactor. I tune the reactor to really minimal and start adding Alk manually to try and bring the alk back up. Mine is a mix tank with sps lps anemone too. Everything currently is looking good so I’m just going to keep monitoring.

 

[chipmunkofdoom2]

I switched to Jaebo dosing pumps 2 months ago for dosing 2 part. I calibrated both dosing pumps and everything was fine for a while. I took a 2 week vacation and noticed the calcium was being used up faster. So now I tested and came up with calcium 500+ with red sea(Maybe 700+ because I used a full syringe and another half before the color changed). And 6.5 Alkalinity. I have Sps, Lps and anemones and it all looks great. Should I just stop dosing the calcium and test daily until it falls back into range? Other suggestions? My Alk was running at 8.5 consistantly before this.

This seems like a reasonable solution, but you'll have to figure out why the numbers got out of sync in the first place. A second test kit to rule out testing error wouldn't be a bad idea. Have you tested both pumps to verify they're dosing the amount you expect? Are you dosing equal amounts of both per day?

 

[kashman100]

It ended up that the calcium was being dosed more. So I'm leaving the calcium off and only dosing alk. The calcium is coming down so that's good. So I guess I will recalibrate the jaebo and keep a close eye on it once I start dosing again