Mg Level
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Low magnesium makes abiotic precipitation of calcium carbonate on heaters, pumps, etc. faster, making it harder to maintain calcium and alkalinity, especially if the pH is also on the high side.
I recommend magnesium to be 1250 to 1350 ppm,so I'd boost it with MG flake or a commercial supplement from Kent or ESV. For this small of a correction once, you can likely just use Epsom salts from the grocery store.
This calculator shows how much to use:
Reef Chemicals Calculator
http://home.comcast.net/~jdieck1/chem_calc3.html
These articles have more:
Reef Aquarium Water Parameters
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-05/rhf/index.htm
Magnesium
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/oct2003/chem.htm
A Homemade Magnesium Supplement
http://web.archive.org/web/20030624...work.com/fish2/aqfm/1999/june/bio/default.asp
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I recommend magnesium to be 1250 to 1350 ppm,so I'd boost it with MG flake or a commercial supplement from Kent or ESV. For this small of a correction once, you can likely just use Epsom salts from the grocery store.
This calculator shows how much to use:
Reef Chemicals Calculator
http://home.comcast.net/~jdieck1/chem_calc3.html
These articles have more:
Reef Aquarium Water Parameters
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-05/rhf/index.htm
Magnesium
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/oct2003/chem.htm
A Homemade Magnesium Supplement
http://web.archive.org/web/20030624...work.com/fish2/aqfm/1999/june/bio/default.asp
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