High Calcium equals little algae growth

reefking807 · Apr 28, 2014

Has anyone heard this or had experience with this. One of the vendors I know have I said to keep calcium above 600 as a result of little to no growth at all in algae. I had never heard of this nor ever experience is it was wondering if anybody else could ever encountered something like that

Reefing Madness · Apr 28, 2014

600?? WOW. Never heard that one before, and I'd not keep my tank at that level just for algae relief sakes. WOW

TheGrimmReefer · Apr 28, 2014

That's completely opposite. High calcium levels will result in higher algae growth rates.

reefking807 · Apr 28, 2014

Well that's what I always thought to. Mine will never get that high. I don't even like mine hitting 490.lol

prsnlty · Apr 28, 2014

I had a guy at one of my LFS say that once. No, not true imo. The use of RO/DI water only, vodka or bio pellets, consistant water changes, no over feeding and a good clean up crew keep algae at bay. High calcuim (that high anyway) isn't good. Because to keep a balanced tank then mag and everything else would be high too. wreeks havok on your equipment. I've had a massive amount of coraline and still had algae because I wasn't using ro/di water. When I got everything in balance, incorperated bio pellets, used ro/di at water changes and top off my hair algae and other bad algaes went away.