Getting confused

Ewilson · Nov 13, 2016

Waters said:
I switched to Red Sea Blue which mixes at an ALK of 8.2....it is actually designed for a LNS.

Id rather start low and dose to 9

JOKER · Nov 13, 2016

I also switched to blue bucket or regular IO. The higher ALK caused swings for me. I like to keep my tank close to natural sea water and the regular salts are very close.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Nov 13, 2016

reeferfoxx said:
@Randy Holmes-Farley is an advocate for RC. .

To be clear, I'm not a fan of Reef Crystals. It is normal Instant Ocean that I prefer. I do not want organics in my salt mix.

reeferfoxx · Nov 13, 2016

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
To be clear, I'm not a fan of Reef Crystals. It is normal Instant Ocean that I prefer. I do not want organics in my salt mix.

I stand corrected.

Ewilson · Nov 13, 2016

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
To be clear, I'm not a fan of Reef Crystals. It is normal Instant Ocean that I prefer. I do not want organics in my salt mix.

What does IO ususally mix to for CA and ALK? I believe I will be switching to the regular when this bucket is done

Reeferdood · Nov 13, 2016

Ewilson said:
What does IO ususally mix to for CA and ALK? I believe I will be switching to the regular when this bucket is done

Those results came from RC. The salinity mix was 1.026

Randy Holmes-Farley · Nov 14, 2016

Ewilson said:
What does IO usually mix to for CA and ALK? I believe I will be switching to the regular when this bucket is done

Calcium is a little on the low side (say 400 ppm) and alk is on the high side (say, 11 dKH). That ratio was perfect for me since in using limewater you are dosing a slight excess of calcium over alkalinity. That said, I haven't measured it myself for more than 10 years. I just used it as it comes.

Edit: Ha, I wrote that before even checking the chart above lol

Ewilson · Nov 14, 2016

Randy Holmes-Farley said:
Calcium is a little on the low side (say 400 ppm) and alk is on the high side (say, 11 dKH). That ratio was perfect for me since in using limewater you are dosing a slight excess of calcium over alkalinity. That said, I haven't measured it myself for more than 10 years. I just used it as it comes.

Edit: Ha, I wrote that before even checking the chart above lol

Cool so all I would really need to dose is calcium to give it the boost to the 430 range