Ideal Calcium

[minimalist]

What should I aim for?

 

[Kurt448]

I go for 440 ppm

 

[minimalist]

Thank you.

 

[fishypets]

Do you have a reactor? IME it is hard to maintain the levels without one.

 

[minimalist]

I sure don't.

 

[Purple Haze]

400-450. Consistancy, however, is more important. Find what works best for your tank and keep it there.

 

[fishypets]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6636973#post6636973 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by minimalist
I sure don't.

You know that is the one piece of equipment I wish I would have purchaced sooner. I just thought my heavily loaded sps/clam tank was doing well untill a few weeks after I hooked up my CA reactor. I know they are expensive but IMO a must if you are keeping sps.

 

[MiddletonMark]

I aim for about 400 on Calcium.
Enough for the corals, not enough to cause too much calcium deposition.

 

[madmac]

I aim for 400 ppm too. My tank jus refuses to budge above 330. Dosing CaCl2.

I remember reading one of Bomber's many unforgetable.... Ca is not limiting, carbon is. Whew.

 

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