Dosing my tank?b-ionic calcium alk and mag

[njfish77]

Well at this point i only have a salifert calcium test kit but mag and alk are coming in on friday. My calcium reads about 375 and i would like it at about 430-450. Does anyone know how i much i would have to dose of b-ionic calcium buffer on 30 gallons of water??

 

[mntl]

to get it up from 375 to 430? If I remeber right you will gain about 16ppm per 30ml (1ml per gal=16ppm incr.)you add of the calcium in your tank. The company does not recommend doing more than 1ml per gal/per day. so I would do 30ml per day of the cal until you are at the level you want (per mfg specification). How this works out in the real world I could not tell you, and I do not know of any side effects. but total you would need about 115-120 ml (at one time, not recomended) to raise you tank above the 430 range.

-John-

 

[njfish77]

alright i just added 25 ml. Tommorrow i will od the same. Thanks for the help.

 

[Grunt007]

Here is a great calculator that will save you a lot of time-

http://home.comcast.net/~jdieck1/chem_calc3.html