[dinor2]

After watching some of my coralline algae go white and my kenya tree coral not it's usual happy self (still opening but, not as much) I did another water test and was amazed at how it has changed! I tested this morning and here are the results:

Temp 76
Salinity 1.024
Ph 8.0 (usually 8.2 or 8.3)
Alk 1.6 (usually 3)
dkh 6 (usually 10)
nitrates 0
ammonia 0
calcium off the scale! at over 520!

My question is, would the overshoot of calcium affect the other parameters? I know calcium is a good thing but not too much! I'm trying to remember what book or site I read this on but I believe too much calcium messes with the other parameters in the water. I did change my salt to Red Sea salt, anyone have this problem with Red Sea? I was using the aqua marine life salt and think that it would be a good idea to stop using the red sea and go back to the AM salt, these problems didn't show when i used AM salt.

Also, I daily take about 3-4 cups of water out to help get some algae off rocks and take a little from the overflow box to keep that water clean, and I replace with salt water that's been mixed days before hand. Everything seems to be OK but, I feel this is a red flag to get this fixed before something VERY bad happens!

Any suggestions, thoughts?...