calcium
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Avi
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I'd recommend that before you use anything like that, you read these:
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-05/rhf/index.php
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-04/rhf/feature/index.php
so you understand that the balance between calcium and alkalinity is very essential. You can use this to arrive at the numbers you want:
http://www.reefnerds.com/ChemPlot/ChemPlot.html
But you have to understand that testing regularly for Calcium and for Alkalinity, among other things like nitrates, will help you succeed with your reef. So rather than use a calcium brick, learn the numbers you want and then to maintain them, get a good calcium additive and a good alkalinity maintenance additive and use this to apply them to keep the numbers right:
http://jdieck1.home.comcast.net/chemcalc.html
It's a bit more complicated that just adding a brick, but it's also mych more likely to lead to a healthy reef like you'd like and after a while, it'll be like second nature to you. Of course, we're here to help you as you get used to this.
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-05/rhf/index.php
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-04/rhf/feature/index.php
so you understand that the balance between calcium and alkalinity is very essential. You can use this to arrive at the numbers you want:
http://www.reefnerds.com/ChemPlot/ChemPlot.html
But you have to understand that testing regularly for Calcium and for Alkalinity, among other things like nitrates, will help you succeed with your reef. So rather than use a calcium brick, learn the numbers you want and then to maintain them, get a good calcium additive and a good alkalinity maintenance additive and use this to apply them to keep the numbers right:
http://jdieck1.home.comcast.net/chemcalc.html
It's a bit more complicated that just adding a brick, but it's also mych more likely to lead to a healthy reef like you'd like and after a while, it'll be like second nature to you. Of course, we're here to help you as you get used to this.
