How to Fix High Calcium and Low Alkalinity

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How to Fix High Calcium and Low Alkalinity

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In this video we are going to cover How to Fix High Calcium and Low Alkalinity with my Neptune Systems DOS. Thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe.
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@armandbenincasa7068 6 жыл бұрын

I could never really grasp the Cal/Alk issue whenever reading articles, forum posts, and the like. Thanks for making it easy to digest, I get it now!

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Glad to help.

@bennybonez 3 жыл бұрын

So basically when your calcium is too high and it has driven down your alkalinity you are just dosing alkalinity to drive the calcium down and bring the alkalinity up?

@chriswiley4895 5 жыл бұрын

Very helpful video and I will be using a similar strategy. One thing I would stay away from, based solely on my experience as a pharmaceutical scientist who develops IV infusion rates and does volumes: your automatically determined dose volumes of 0.4 mL at intervals is never going to end up at 0.4 mL. With the space between dosing and the high salt environment, osmotic diffusion, etc, you are much better off using minimum doses in the range of 3-5 mL, less frequently. You will be more accurate overall that way (even if the same precision per dose). For example if you have twenty 0.4 mL doses with a +/- tolerance for the pump of 0.2 mL (a huge stretch for a hobby level pump), you could potentially under-dose by 50%! If you have 4 doses of 5 mL with that same pump tolerance, you are only looking at a max under-dose of 4%.

@TheG760 4 жыл бұрын

How do you know what caused it?

@korbindrake1055 6 жыл бұрын

Really enjoying all of your content, thanks for a ton of information I’ve found useful!

@bigj8687 6 жыл бұрын

Investing in a hana alk tester finally great videos

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Hanna is the best.. till the trident comes to market.

@Cartoonicus Ай бұрын

Is there a video about how to do this if you DON’T have the wolds most sophisticated digital screen controlled system?

@BlandDeuce 6 жыл бұрын

one day my wife will say yes to a big tank , lol, nice job as always thanks

@karenstraily4115 6 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you did this video, I didn't realize that calcium and alkalinity effected each other. I have always had high calcium with low alkalinity. About 4 months ago I started dosing alkalinity to improve it. I have noticed my calcium levels getting into a more normal range as my calcium levels used to be almost 600. Although I had noticed more normal calcium range 460-490 I didn't realize until now that was due to the alkalinity. Thanks so much for all of your videos, always learn something new 😀

@anthonymurphy3101 5 жыл бұрын

So by just dosing alkalinity and keeping it up higher it will balance the calcium back down and start using equal amounts again?? I've been getting my butt kicked by this and no answers anywhere. Please tell me how this worked to fix it.

@MadHattersReef 5 жыл бұрын

That’s what I did.

@waynelscott 6 жыл бұрын

I’ve had that same problem and my magnesium was off too. Hopefully yours is inline.

@sbazain 3 жыл бұрын

I have alk at 11/12 my calc is at above 500 how can I Lower the all all I have right now is softies

@garydsouza2335 3 жыл бұрын

hi can Calcium go up if you don't dos it.... mine has gone up but i only dos ALK... or do i need to retest

@okelliesfarm 3 жыл бұрын

Ok I don't have a Neptune I have 2 dose so what do you do if you don't have a Neptune?

@jeffbritman6217 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the info!

@isildurtube 3 жыл бұрын

What happened after?what about magnesium?

@jacklawer6389 5 ай бұрын

Gr8 video, thanks My tank is 3 week old still cycling Calcium 373 Ph 7.9 I dont understand why ph is low, and calcium You know why possibly please I thought new tank would have good parameters since there are no creatures in the tank, confused

@MadHattersReef 4 ай бұрын

The grow of bacteria can reduce pH and ALK as well. I’ll be working on a video for this subject soon.

@kkrishna9791 6 жыл бұрын

So accurate video. Most reefer face this problem

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@kchamberlain86 5 жыл бұрын

Did you ever make an updated video? I’m dosing now and my cal is 480 and my alk is 8.12. I just turned off my cal but I did do a water change today. I’ll keep an eye on it daily. I want my alk up to 9 and cal at 450. My mag was 1390. Thanks

@kentedgar442 Жыл бұрын

My tank is at 1.7 dkh what do i need to do?

@Mr.Glitch 6 жыл бұрын

Spooooky, I'm having exactly the same issue this week. Calc is off the chart for my salifert, so over 500, yet the kh/alk has dropped to 7.6 and I did a 50% water change today! Totally stumped as to why this has happened, but my Ph is sitting on 7.76 and the SPS are not looking happy!!

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Every is looking great in my tank just noticed it during weekly testing.

@Mr.Glitch 6 жыл бұрын

Hopefully you've caught it all in time! You've probably already seen it, but I'm liking this handy dandy lil article www.advancedaquarist.com/2002/11/chemistry

@anthonycales9118 3 жыл бұрын

How do you lower calcium and raise alkalinity when you haven't dosed anything? Is it strickly through a water change? My calcium about 520. I have no corals other than star polyps and zoanthiads.

@marcosherrera675 3 жыл бұрын

I'm having the same problem now in my 65g reef ..mostly lps tank calcium is 499 alk is 6.9 . I just ordered my apex won't be here until Friday..5 days from now. How do I do I fix this without the apex . I was using brightwell code B only for a month..I didn't change anything. Now I'm switching to seachem reef carbonate. I'm adding 15 mills twice a week. So 30 mills a week total. Should I use baking soda. My PH is 7.9 I would appreciate your advice

@WayneDesilets 6 жыл бұрын

Great Video. Going thru same situation right now..

@salvadorablescubes2000 6 жыл бұрын

Just in time. Very helpful!

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

That’s why I’m here!

@ambervassallo123 5 жыл бұрын

I have the salifert alkalinity test and I am doing the test and it never turns pink it almost does at the end so does that mean my alkalinity is way to high?? I think that’s what it means what should I do?

@rosedonnapur 2 жыл бұрын

Can I get some advice tanks naw 1.5 years old cal 573 and alk 20.0 it's been like thies for about a year I think it's not gd haw can I chang this

@MadHattersReef 6 ай бұрын

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@SHIZZILANILLA 6 жыл бұрын

Good information again. Thanks man.

@austinbassin4420 4 жыл бұрын

My parameters are on the high end but in the normal range. However my Dkh is 6.8.5 and has been for a month. My tank is 2 months old and adding coral. I perform 20%water change every week. Should I bring Alk up a bit ? And how do I do this without affecting other parameters because they are fine? Thanks and anyone feel free to comment, thanks

@SCReefer 6 жыл бұрын

Great update! thanks for sharing.

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@mikeleonard8521 6 жыл бұрын

Interesting video. Thanks!

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@nathanmoore7142 6 жыл бұрын

Great info. Keep them coming.

@jeffjarry4257 5 жыл бұрын

Will this work on any 2 part I us ATI essential pro. thanks for the video.

@deityreefer6617 4 жыл бұрын

What should all specs be for a reef tank

@josephpettit8572 6 жыл бұрын

Great content. Keep it coming

@jaszhu1989 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the vid. I was wondering how to bring my alk up. I saw vids and forum saying when you dose alk you also have to dose cal. Which doesn't make sense cuz my alk sitting at 5.6 and cal at 510

@TheWarOrphan 4 жыл бұрын

Hogan Machine! Thanks for the tips I’m battling right now.

@heathercampbell3907 6 жыл бұрын

I was dealing with the same problem a few months again in my 43 gallon Red Sea reefer system. I’ve been manually dosing 10ml alkalinity a day and it’s slowly coming up. Do you think a dosing system is over kill in my small reef.

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

You can dial it in for an size tank.

@tplummer217 5 жыл бұрын

I like the content. Im in that exact situation with the same setup so its spot on for me! Thx.

@MadHattersReef 5 жыл бұрын

I just got mine in line as if this week. nothing good happens fast.

@amdudley83 6 жыл бұрын

Nice job once again!

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@mario600ish 2 жыл бұрын

I ha mi calcium an 540 how to do it for lower down

@scottfloyd9794 6 жыл бұрын

What testing method do you use?

@karennation3580 3 жыл бұрын

i have a huge problem. I added 14 corals but tiny lil frags to a 36 gallon, but feeding the reefroids and having nevr feed it to this tank made nitrates up to about 80! Alk dropped to 6 calcium is good at 460. I am also questiong this api kit that had lids off the nirtates and dkh. The bigger problem is I have more corals, of about 18 coming in in 4 days. I could maybe get it changed to a week. I havnt feed anymore reef roids. I am not sure how long to get a hanna checker though. I am going to do 2 water changes. If they come in and its still out of whack but being fixed soon will it kill my corals? IT took about 3 weeks to fix a problem with a credit i dint get and all the while they were having ebay auctions and a live sale and I just kept adding more...lol Stupid I know. Like there is another auction on sunday and this one has really great deals better than any so far! OMG Shipping is paid to and it would co st me more to get these corals anywhere else! This is unique corals so you know they have nice corals! But will they die that fast. I am going to be slowly uping ph and alk. I also want to start carbon dosing. Just hooked up skimmer a few days ago, so that might make a difference. This tank is 5 months old. I am also getting radions next week so its a lot of changes for the ones I have had for about a month and the new ones coming are used to radions but probably pristine water!

@stevenreeves4766 2 жыл бұрын

but what causes it to get out of whack? usually calcium drops it does not increase?

@MadHattersReef Жыл бұрын

A lot of things most common is coral consumption

@stevenreeves4766 Жыл бұрын

@@MadHattersReef for me, mine turned out to be I had the alkalinity too high and it was causing the calcium to calcify all of my sand.

@freddybovenkerk6704 6 жыл бұрын

Good thing you test often. I gotta start being better at that.

@sunnygoold9449 6 жыл бұрын

Well explained - clear, concise - this is brilliant ;)

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Not sure about all that but 🙏

@rsantom 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Mad Hatter, I got cal at 580 and on. How do I lower it???

@CescaTheDarkHorse 6 жыл бұрын

Nice video and some good advice. Subscribed to your channel :)

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub and watching!

@killcon10 6 жыл бұрын

Nice video as always 👍

@crazyinkjets7005 3 жыл бұрын

most of the people over here don't use the apax dosing system, so i would recommend dosing slowly 4 gallon 1ml for 1 week till you see the results sh!t if you don't have a dosing pump any that's the struggle manual dosing. reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-02/rhf/index.php will help a lot

@robertmccreary4749 6 жыл бұрын

I know Magnesium doesn't swing that much, but doesn't that have a large part with balance of calcium and alkalinity

@gryphonr.w.b.9519 3 жыл бұрын

New sub here.. also new reef tank owner. This info makes sense but the software with automatic 17 minute doses is not a reality here.. i am doing this by hand.. wish me luck

@jonathanweets8632 6 жыл бұрын

Like the video but there are people who don’t have the apx. What do you recommend for those of us who don’t

@jonathanweets8632 6 жыл бұрын

Besides getting an apx

@ajs9073 6 жыл бұрын

My Ca and Alk are both cray out of line and I don't have an Apex system (someday....). I am currently dealing with it Sometimes I wonder if the Coral is really worth all the trouble,

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Only you can decide that!

@cmaquatics7428 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks i am having this same issue in one of my tanks.

@MadHattersReef 4 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help

@jchurchill75 3 жыл бұрын

Mad Hatter's Reef so pretty much I have to very slowly raise my alk from the 8.4-8.5 to say 9.0 to get my sky high 540-550 ca to drop? That or the api ca rest is way off. Ughh. This shit is so hard!

@kevinfetty6828 4 жыл бұрын

I've always been told never to dose one without the other. Is that a myth.?

@big9ersr814 6 жыл бұрын

What is the best test kit

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Salifert is the best of the titration test kits but hanna checkers are the best overall.

@Alexx38294 3 жыл бұрын

I started cycling my 5 gallon tank a few days ago and I tested the calcium and it was at 520

@jchurchill75 3 жыл бұрын

For the life of me I can’t get my ca to drop (540-550) mg 1480 and my alk I have to dose daily to keep at 8.5 I have lps and softies what am I doing wrong?! Ughh

@foxchase725 3 жыл бұрын

I'm in the same exact boat

@palgjervan1424 3 жыл бұрын

@@foxchase725 Me too, same problem. Looks like if I try to maintain the levels of alk by dosing. Then the ca and mg is rising also. If i stop dosing alk, then it looks like it slowly going down, but then alk and ph will be way to low. Alk is now 8.46 and ca 554 mg 1460 and ph 8.02. How are your reef tanks looking now guys. Did you find a solution?

@johnnycarreiro5698 6 жыл бұрын

How can I reduce alkalinity? Mines over 12 and I’ve tried mostly everything

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Water changes will help but it's going to take a few of them.

@rachelswartz1633 6 жыл бұрын

Me too this well help a lot thank

@blaineboone6765 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the insite man

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@pushback5336 Жыл бұрын

Everything was fine in my tank now my calcium is at 740 and alkalinity is at 1 smfh idk what happened

@juansanchez-kb4ij 5 жыл бұрын

How about if u don’t have all that fancy system like yours with a computer system ?

@jesseascunce4177 6 жыл бұрын

I’m going to start dosing soon

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Make sure you test your parameters.

@jesseascunce4177 6 жыл бұрын

Mad Hatter's Reef I do about once a week with kalk calcium usually stays at 380 and alkalinity at 7

@dayamishtiaq1410 2 жыл бұрын

you forgot to mention the reason of droping alkalinity and raising calcuim mineral..

@MadHattersReef 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for pointing that out

@whywaswacktaken7761 6 жыл бұрын

Love your vid about to learn how to dive any tips love corals my favorite is torch coral

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

I got nothing in the dive department...

@emmanueldorn3211 6 жыл бұрын

Nice video

@rickg8439 6 жыл бұрын

Love the shirt!

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@80gl_3 6 жыл бұрын

Gotta get an Apex!!! Makes everything easy!

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

It does but apex isn't the only option out there.

@80gl_3 6 жыл бұрын

Mad Hatter's Reef I like the ekoral too, however it looks very basic with not as many options. Maybe I’m wrong.

@joegallagher5311 6 жыл бұрын

Keep videos coming

@RustyShacklefardd 4 жыл бұрын

I dosed kent a and b nano and my calcium is still at 340

@texasreeferusa922 6 жыл бұрын

So true.

@NapFloridian 6 жыл бұрын

You got yourself a Sub buddy :D

@Moreysreef 6 жыл бұрын

Nice shirt! 🤙🏻

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@robertvega2114 6 жыл бұрын

I want a apex Neptune 😢 it looks sooo easy!

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Making KZfaq videos got me mine.

@garrettkeller3681 6 жыл бұрын

Nice looking shirts and great video. One day I'll have an APEX system.

@RedfoxTheScot 6 жыл бұрын

Notification squaaad

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

🙌🏻

@patterdalezipsuzilil 4 жыл бұрын

You forgot magnesium very important in maintaining calcium and dkh I use arm extra course reactor Media and iquatics synthetic salt UK my calcium is 700 magnesium 1600 dkh 14.5 coral grow wild you need a reactor because co2 is important your waisting your time doseing get a reactor and high buffed Pro reef salt synthetic

@tompierireefaquarium5842 6 жыл бұрын

Pick me I wanna win. I never win anything. I couldn't even buy a winning lottery ticket LMAO .

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Me either

@ericbrokos7817 6 жыл бұрын

Man I need an apex!

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

It’s a great piece of equipment but you’re going to pay 💰 for it.

@lowefx 6 жыл бұрын

APEX looks like a great system. Someday I'll get one!

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

They make things a lot easier

@christianherrera9538 6 жыл бұрын

I like lemonade lol

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

me too

@garret1666 5 жыл бұрын

WHAT ARE YOU DOSING TO INCREASE ALKALINITY?!

@MadHattersReef 5 жыл бұрын

ME Coral products

@tonyaclark1570 6 жыл бұрын

I was having the same problem, go figure🤔

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Stay tuned...

@nickwatson831 6 жыл бұрын

yeahhhh buddie!!!

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@MARINETV 6 жыл бұрын

How’s your computer boss 😂

@MadHattersReef 6 жыл бұрын

I knew my computer was bad but did realize how bad it was until I go this one. It’s going to take me a little while to figure out FCPX but I should be making some crazy videos in no time. Thanks for asking!