Cloudy Tank with Reef Ca

[rohnds]

Whenever I add SeaChem Reef Calcium, my tank becomes cloudy for about 12 to 18 hours. I am using the right dosage. What I am doing wrong? Is that normal?
Rohn

 

[kevin4052002]

When I added calcium it made the water cloudy for a little while, but not for the entire day. What are you adding for? How much are you adding?

 

[fish outa wata]

just wondering, was your calicum low?
My tester says to add if below 450 but I never have had to. I think mine is naturally high.

 

[kevin4052002]

I would make 420ppm your minimum if you don't have tons of corals.

 

[OCCFan023]

I just recieved my bottle of the seachem clacium today, when I do my water change and test calcium (guessing i need to use it) I will let you know if I experience the same amount of cloudiness you do

 

[wayne]

Frankly if you don't have lots of calcium using corals you can go down to about 350 and it won't matter a toot except your coralline won't grow so good. If you do water changes it won't go lower than that.

Be realistic. Whay are you adding calcium? What's using it, and how much? If you have a tank with jsut fish and softies, you have no need to dose calcium at all. And frankly just adding calcium willynilly is more likely to give you problems than not adding it.
Because if you start adding calcium you had better keep a close eye on your alk and possibly magnesium as well as artificially cranking up calcium alone to force coralline growth will deplete those other too, leading to a pH crash.

 

[rohnds]

This is in an effort to accelerate coralline algae growth.

Rohn

 

[wayne]

How much are you adding? Are you doing any alk buffering? This could be a couple of things tho' seachem say that you can't get straight precipitation of CaCO3 but don't explain why?