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Old 01/12/2005, 07:05 AM
Randy Holmes-Farley Randy Holmes-Farley is offline
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I have not found my aquarium to be especially low in magnesium when using IO, but I have also not recently tested it. FWIW, many folks find things low because they do not maintain NSW salinity (35 ppt = 1.2064 sg).

I use limewater to maintain calcium and alkalinity, which is very inexpensive.

Baking soda and Dowflake CaCl2 are cheap ways to raise them independently.
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