B-Ionic

Hello,

I use the B-Ionic Calcium and Alkalinity Buffer system daily and I follow the directions correctly.

My Salifert test kits show that my Ca is 500 and my Alk is 10.2

Is this ok? Should add less? Should I add every other day?

Can I sleep good at night with these figures?

Thank you very much. (that was my impression of me doing Jim Carrey doing Andy Kaufman doing Ladka).

I use B-Ionic and I only use it every other day depending on how many corals are in the tank. When there is not that many corals in the tank I do it about once a week.

the answer to your question is Yes your calcium and alk values are too high
calcium should be at 400-450 and alk somewhere around 3- 3.5
i would try that same dosage every other day for a week and see how you values come out if they are still high i woul cut back the amount and still do it every other day.it took me a while to figure out how much to does and when to dose. my open brain coral sucks up alot of cals every day so that made it kinda easier.

hope this helps

I presume that the alkalinity is being measured as dKH (I hate that unit). If so, it is fine (3.6 meq/L), but it wouldn't hurt if it dropped a small amount (as long as its above 2.5 meq/L and you aren't using Seachem salt).

The calcium too is a tiny bit high, but won't hurt anything where it is. 400 ppm is a fine number to shoot for.

As to the dose: the suitability of your dose depends upon the pH of your tank. If it's getting above 8.4, I'd drop it by 25-50% and see what happens over the next week. If its not getting above 8.4 at any time during the day, then the dose you are using is fine, but you could drop it if you want to save some money.

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Randy Holmes-Farley

Be careful with B ionic- they ship a regular and a concentrated version- without clear marking on the bottle which is which. Last time I ordered I asked for the concentrated due to cost savings- but need to remember to dilute shen I put it into smaller handy bottles.