Calcium won’t stop going up.

SuperSaiyanTang · Mar 10, 2020

I have been maintaining my calcium at about 440 with trident controlled dosing. I started dozing some trace elements and amino acids and my calcium has gradually shot up to 587! I stopped dosing but it still continues to rise. My magnesium has also slowly lowered. Should I just let my corals slowly consume the calcium? My corals all seem fine at the moment.

Auquanut · Mar 11, 2020

Bump?

JoshO · Mar 11, 2020

#reefsquad

SuperSaiyanTang · Mar 11, 2020

So I think I figured out what happened. My trident reagents we’re close to empty and apparently if the test begins to suck in air then you can get a bad reading. I replaced the reagents and everything is reading back to normal again.

Auquanut · Mar 11, 2020

SuperSaiyanTang said:
So I think I figured out what happened. My trident reagents we’re close to empty and apparently if the test begins to suck in air then you can get a bad reading. I replaced the reagents and everything is reading back to normal again.

Woo Hoo! Mystery solved! Chalk one up for the good guys!

Randy Holmes-Farley · Mar 15, 2020

Good to hear. Calcium cannot rise on its own if it is not being added somehow.

skipol5665 · Oct 30, 2020

I'm having the same problem. I changed the regeants but its still going up on the trident. Should I run a calibration on the trident now that I have new regeants?

Randy Holmes-Farley · Oct 30, 2020

skipol5665 said:
I'm having the same problem. I changed the regeants but its still going up on the trident. Should I run a calibration on the trident now that I have new regeants?

Are you dosing anything? How much has it risen?

skipol5665 · Oct 30, 2020

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
Are you dosing anything? How much has it risen?

I turned off dosing when it started climbing and its still going up. It went from 410 to 580ish

John08007 · Oct 30, 2020

skipol5665 said:
I turned off dosing when it started climbing and its still going up. It went from 410 to 580ish

Your measurement rose, but you contributed that to your reagents being almost empty. Have you tested outside the trident or once you refilled the reagents?

Randy Holmes-Farley · Oct 30, 2020

skipol5665 said:
I turned off dosing when it started climbing and its still going up. It went from 410 to 580ish

You must be adding it somehow, or the test is in error. It cannot rise that much on its own.

I'd get new reagents before acting on the result.

skipol5665 · Oct 30, 2020

John08007 said:
Your measurement rose, but you contributed that to your reagents being almost empty. Have you tested outside the trident or once you refilled the reagents?

My calcium test broke I'm waiting for a new one that supposed to be in the mail.

skipol5665 · Oct 30, 2020

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
You must be adding it somehow, or the test is in error. It cannot rise that much on its own.

I'd get new reagents before acting on the result.

I believe it is a trident testing error.

SuperSaiyanTang · Oct 30, 2020

Double check your connections to your trident reagents. I would also reach out to Neptune. They were able to review logs on the backend to see if anything was wrong. In the past I have had to recalibrate before I got a good result.

skipol5665 · Oct 31, 2020

SuperSaiyanTang said:
Double check your connections to your trident reagents. I would also reach out to Neptune. They were able to review logs on the backend to see if anything was wrong. In the past I have had to recalibrate before I got a good result.

I recalibrate the trident and the numbers are very close to where I would expect them to be.