govols2015 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 I have a 10 gallon reef with a small toadstool leather and a small frogspawn which seem to be doing fine with just my weekly water change. I saw a really nice looking small torch coral at my LFS today but decided I wanted to test my calcium, magnesium, and alkalinity before adding too many LPS. I bought a Red Sea test kit and tested all three today, right after a water change. My calcium came out to 500, my magnesium 1500, and my alkalinity was around 3.3. I use Aquavitro Salinity salt and I am at 1.025 on that metric. Are those elevated calcium and magnesium numbers something to worry about or should I be ok to add another LPS at those levels? Thanks, everyone! Quote Link to comment
Clown79 Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Elevated magnesium is not known to cause problems, low magnesium does. High ca also not known to cause issues besides possibly low alkalinity. The 2 work together. Alk being 3.3, is that dkh? If so, that's very low if that's meq/l it would be 9.24 dkh which is fine Quote Link to comment
govols2015 Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 Thanks for the response! I won't worry about it then, right now Quote Link to comment
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