Sk8r
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:shock: My 52 gallon tank (set up in January) has lazed along taking about 1/4 tsp calcium (with alk at 2.98-3.5, mg at 1300) about every 2 days.
Suddenly it's taking half a teaspoon a day, and maybe more than that: I'm still adjusting. I run buffer in my topoff water. I add Kent calcium beads to the sump dissolved in tank water. The buffer has tended to deplete more rapidly than previously by about a third (then I accidentally ran it a bit high), but the calcium demand is what really surprised me: it's more than doubled. More like quadrupled.
I acquired a 3-4 inch crocea, for one thing. Besides that I have frags of: 1 green bali slimer, 3 small acroporas, a mille, 2 montipora flat pieces, 3 digitatas (one as big as your fist) a 3 head hammer, a single head frogspawn, a smallish bubble, a fox, and a 2 inch plate. Now, admittingly I'm running out of places to set things that nothing else can reach, but this was quite a sudden rise in demand---like over the course of days.
Is it the clam? The corals? The mysteries of a new tank settling in? Is it going to get hungrier than this? How much is safe to add at a time? I have an inquiry in progress about kalk, and I am testing often and trying to stabilize this sudden seesaw of alk and cal. Any additional info would come welcome.
Suddenly it's taking half a teaspoon a day, and maybe more than that: I'm still adjusting. I run buffer in my topoff water. I add Kent calcium beads to the sump dissolved in tank water. The buffer has tended to deplete more rapidly than previously by about a third (then I accidentally ran it a bit high), but the calcium demand is what really surprised me: it's more than doubled. More like quadrupled.
I acquired a 3-4 inch crocea, for one thing. Besides that I have frags of: 1 green bali slimer, 3 small acroporas, a mille, 2 montipora flat pieces, 3 digitatas (one as big as your fist) a 3 head hammer, a single head frogspawn, a smallish bubble, a fox, and a 2 inch plate. Now, admittingly I'm running out of places to set things that nothing else can reach, but this was quite a sudden rise in demand---like over the course of days.
Is it the clam? The corals? The mysteries of a new tank settling in? Is it going to get hungrier than this? How much is safe to add at a time? I have an inquiry in progress about kalk, and I am testing often and trying to stabilize this sudden seesaw of alk and cal. Any additional info would come welcome.
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