EMERGENCY, Too much cal&Alk HELP

[Elflaco112]

I have a medic doser dosing myESV 2 Part Cal & Alk. every night I put so it can dose 45ML into my 150 Gal. My Cal is usually around 450-460 and Alk 8-9. I set it so once I put it to dose it will only dose 45ML and last night I forgot to set the limit so it continued dosing until now that I noticed the pump still spinning. It dosed 580ML of each in a matter of 16Hrs. Haven't checked the reading yet but I could imagine them REALLY HIGH. Im going to do a 50% water change. Will that help lowering the reading or NO? If its a NO then what can I do to lower the reading. Will try and take the reading right now. Thanks for the advice in advance.... Luis.

 

[kgoldy]

My assumption is that your pH has skyrocketed too... I recently accidentally overdosed my tank the same way... I poured in regular white vinegar to bring pH back down to safe levels. The corals recovered and opened back up within minutes.

 

[Elflaco112]

my PH is at 8.4 Alk is over 16 and Cal. I cant even imagine. checked the levels with Salifert test kits and didnt even change color. hopefully this 50% water change will do the trick. All my Corals r open and looking well. but we'll see what affect it has on them if any. Hopefully not.

 

[ecvernon]

you should be ok by doing water change. thank god you have a 150 gallon tank, if it were smaller could have been havoc. dkh should be kept at range anywhere from 8-12. a few water changes with 8-10 dkh fresh saltwater and you should be back at the range.

similar situation happened to me before worst part of it that sps experienced bleaching and softies were closed for a few days.

 

[Elflaco112]

you should be ok by doing water change. thank god you have a 150 gallon tank, if it were smaller could have been havoc. dkh should be kept at range anywhere from 8-12. a few water changes with 8-10 dkh fresh saltwater and you should be back at the range.

similar situation happened to me before worst part of it that sps experienced bleaching and softies were closed for a few days.

did a 50% water change, have'nt checked the levels but hopefully it's all good now. did ur sps recover from that?