Monday, February 9, 2009

Weekly Update

Not much has happened this week, but I am happy to report that my Calcium Levels are back to normal. Life in Henry Reef is back to normal :) Here are the latest test results:
Salinity - 1.025
kH - 14
Calcium - 350
Nitrates - 0
as you can see when I stopped buffering Ca the kH spiked and Ca dropped off. That is why you must reach a balanced Ca kH ratio. I was looking into this and found a great site that calculates how much of a product you need to reach a desired level and where calcium and alk are balanced here it is:
http://reef.diesyst.com/chemcalc/chemcalc.html

1 comment:

  1. Let's hope that the better water parameters make a difference for your now two anomonaes.

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