Over dosed calcium

[bubbaque]

@Randy Holmes-Farley I use a calcrx so I don't check my calcium often and only check alk. I declined to check and it said my calc was 370, so I dosed calcium. It turns out my test kit is bad and my calc is really 520.

My alk is 8.6 and mag is 1275. Should I worry about my calc being that high? I can't really turn off my reactor as alk will drop and I don't have anything to supplement alk yet. If you say I should worry I will order some to just dose alk while it comes down.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

520 ppm calcium is fine.

 

[redfishbluefish]

Most all alk products are sodium carbonate. So you can simply DIY some buy using baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), or bake a couple cups on a cookie sheet at 350F for an hour, and you'll now have soda ash (sodium carbonate). Use a dosing calculator (such as this one from BRS), and choose the "dry" powder you have, and desired alk level.....done!

 

[bubbaque]

Most all alk products are sodium carbonate. So you can simply DIY some buy using baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), or bake a couple cups on a cookie sheet at 350F for an hour, and you'll now have soda ash (sodium carbonate). Use a dosing calculator (such as this one from BRS), and choose the "dry" powder you have, and desired alk level.....done!

Thanks for the tip! I was hoping that calcium level was fine as I have no idea what my tanks all consumption is and was hoping to not throw everything even more out of wack trying to figure it out what it is over the next few days dosing alk.

I think I am going to let it be and see what happens.