Want to raise Calcium using 2 part.

[Dp916]

Question guys, Iam currently using 2 part solution to maintain cal and alk.
I noticed my Calcium drop to 380 and alk saying at 8.7. I would like to raise calcium without raising alk. Any advice thank you.

 

[cboltsd01]

Question guys, Iam currently using 2 part solution to maintain cal and alk.
I noticed my Calcium drop to 380 and alk saying at 8.7. I would like to raise calcium without raising alk. Any advice thank you.

Even when you get your Calcium to desired levels, it will continue to drop if you dont maintain your Mag higher, fyi.

 

[AdamB]

Question guys, Iam currently using 2 part solution to maintain cal and alk.
I noticed my Calcium drop to 380 and alk saying at 8.7. I would like to raise calcium without raising alk. Any advice thank you.

Check your magnesium levels. Calcium will dip if your magnesium is below normal.
Are you dosing 2 part equally?

 

[Dp916]

I understand but how do I raise calcium using 2 part without lowering alk.

 

[DarthSimon]

You can dos the calcium part until you reach desired number. Dos and test daily. What are you dosing now? Brand and amount? What size tank? What kind of corals?

 

[Dp916]

You can dos the calcium part until you reach desired number. Dos and test daily. What are you dosing now? Brand and amount?

What about the alk., would it lower alk if I dose calcium in higher amount ?

 

[DarthSimon]

Please answer my questions?

 

[RedSea500MaxS]

Apex with Dos if you can, water change then set both ca and Alk, plus Mg then dose Parts 1 and 2 equally per dosing instructions thencheck Mg weekly for a while and your issues will go away. Mine did. I use Fritz 1, 2 and Mg plus FritzPro salt. Trident online now. Yee hah!

 

[Dp916]

Please answer my questions?

Dosing esv bionic 2 part, 100g, Mixed reef lots of sps

 

[AdamB]

I understand but how do I raise calcium using 2 part without lowering alk.

Couple things
First . What is your specific gravity of tank?i you can up your specific gravity to 1.025-26
Stop dosing alk for a while and check your alk levels daily. The alk will deplete at much faster rate than your calcium so once you get where you want to start back with maintenance with the 2 part.
You can look at alk and calcium like this:
If you fill up your tank with 2 different colored marbles and one color is alk and the other color is calcium. You can only hold so many marbles in your tank.in order to get calcium marbles up you will have to remove alk marbles out of tank to do that.
Hope this helps

 

[Yas]

I dose magnesium first, then wait for an hour before dosing calcium so that magnesium is fully circulated around the tank. This waiting period may not be needed if the magnesium level is already enough.

It's said that calcium and alkalinity are a teeter-totter relation, where either side is up, the other side is down. But magnesium is said to have a buffer effect and it's effective to maintain both calcium and alkalinity higher.

So raising magnesium should drastically help raising calcium without raising the dosing amount of calcium, I believe. Because my SPS stock is low and I use aragonite sand, which is said to have a buffer effect, my alkalinity level is maintained at around 8 dKH without dosing alkalinity. So I think you can stop dosing alkalinity for a while if your dKH is already at that high.

Hope it helps.

Yas

 

[nereefpat]

There is some strange advice in this thread...

If you want to raise Ca, just add more of the Ca portion of the 2-part. That's the beauty of 2-part vs kalk or CaRx, for example.