Raising PH with raising Akalinity?

i use API for ammonia. nitrite, nitrate, and PH. good, reliable, easy to use test kits

 

Ok, Elos kits arrived today. Here's my parms:

Specific Gravity: 1.025
PH: 8.2
Alk: 12 dKH
Ca: 250
Mg: 1400

I can't for the life of me get the Ca up. I've been adding Purple Up now for almost 2 weeks and Ca is still at 250. Should I add more than recommended? I also have some Kent liquid Ca, should I try that instead?

Was thinking my not being able to get Ca up was due to low Mg, but Mg looks good (surprisingly).

Thanks!

 

The Kents should bring it up or try Kents turbo cal.

 

I have them and I think they work just fine.

 

Hate to be the one to tell you this but Purple up is not a Ca supplement. :-/ It is full of iodine so if your not testing for that I bet it is off the charts. Stop with the PU and get you some Kents Turbo Calcium. I use 1/2 cup of that stuff and I get 50 ppm increase out of 300g of water.

That Elos dHK test kit is the chit, isn't it???

 

I was wondering that myself but since I have never used that product, I thought nothing of it. Good call, no wonder his Cal is going nowhere.

 

Purple up is just the powder/dust most wash out of their aragonite sands also sold as AragaMilk Liquid Aragonite when they add glycerin and dry its called AragaMIGHT and then they add glycerin and extra iodine and strontium and Molybdenum and they call this wet dust Purple Up

 

Interesting...I knew Purple Up wasn't just a Ca supplement, but read the following on marine depot which caused me to think it was a Ca supplement with some extras: "It contains ionic calcium which immediately raises dissolved calcium levels in your aquarium water."

This would explain why my Ca levels went up when I was using the Kent liquid Ca and then went back down when I stopped and started using Purple Up.

Thanks once again everyone! Off to add some liquid Ca!

 

Hey Tangster, any dirt cheap solutions for raising Ca like you have for PH and Magnesium?? ;D

 

Roger will probably PM you with his source of 25lb bag of Ca Chl but for the time being use some kents, it's not that expensive and this little container will last you a while unless you have a 75g full of sps's
Kent Turbo-Calcium 400 gram: Premium Aquatics

It's even a 3reef sponsor.