Purple up

[The sculpin]

Anyone ever use purple up to raise calcium levels?

 

[JPMagyar]

Yes Purple Up works well, but it shouldn't be a "steady diet".

 

[The sculpin]

Made water cloudy. Did I use to much?

 

[Barro777]

I have Kent Marine Purple Tech. More or less same thing. It says right on the package that it 'will' make water cloudy due to highly concentrated formula. Cloudiness will dissipate within an hour or so.

 

[The sculpin]

Cool thanks for the help

 

[triggreef]

better be testing. I used it for a month dosing per direction and Ca levels were double what they should be. Ca will burn corals. Oh and NO purple coraline either. It took me 3 weeks of large water changes to get the Ca back down to normal.

 

[SuperSaltwater]

essential elements works for me.

 

[The sculpin]

I will test again tomorrow to see where levels are at

 

[disc1]

The stuff in purple up is fine aragonite sand. It isn't even soluble in seawater. Even if it was, it would be about the single most expensive and wasteful way to raise calcium ever. It is a really poor product.

 

[The sculpin]

What do you use to raise calcium?

 

[disc1]

Calcium chloride. I buy it in bulk from BRS but you can find a number of sources.

 

[Painted skin]

^^^ +1 or calcium reactor.

Unless you have lots of corals and consuming cal faster, using good quality salt mix and doing WC will replenish the calcium among other elements. As a beginner if you need to add more you can also use dry form additives like Seachem Calcium advantage which has the same elements in Purple up. Purple up is a watered down product, in my earlier years I've use it then when I looks at the ingredient I said to myself " what the heck am I doing" when it's cheaper to buy dry form product.

As for cloudiness like someone said it should dissipate in a few hours, but it doesn't then you have used too much and will cause participate, even says on the bottle from what I remember.

 

[blue98ls1]

So what about using it to establish a new tank? I won a free bottle at our club's holiday party and will be starting my 180g build soon. I don't plan on moving my livestock until the cycle process is over AND I have decent coralline.

 

[Dr. Reef]

such products are waste of time and money. for cal use cal chloride like stated above much cheaper and better source or a cal reactor.

 

[disc1]

So what about using it to establish a new tank? I won a free bottle at our club's holiday party and will be starting my 180g build soon. I don't plan on moving my livestock until the cycle process is over AND I have decent coralline.

Yeah, I won a free bottle once too. Never even cracked the seal. I might have even thrown it away already. It might be sitting in the cabinet behind my tank. I can't remember. But I never saw any reason to open it.

 

[Painted skin]

I donated mine to some other sucker than myself. lol

 

[The sculpin]

Kid at LFS recommended it. Live and learn I guess.

 

[SushiGirl]

So what about using it to establish a new tank?

It wouldn't establish anything.

 

[DHyslop]

It wouldn't establish anything.

Well, maybe it will establish a revenue stream for the LFS.