your advice/critique for my tank

[saltcreepette]

Oh yeah, my calcium is low and I havent gotten a handle on it yet. I need to get the name of a GOOD reef salt that has sufficient levels of CA from the get go! my IO is testing at 260 freshly mixed! So please make suggestions. So far am thinking reef crystals, but what do y'all use that you KNOW has good CA levels? I would LOVE to have a clam when the levels are up.
Because I know I want to get some more corals in there, I need to know which soft or LPS you'd recommend for color (bright pink or green or blue).

[GaryP]

Reef Crystals or the new Seachem Reef salt.

[saltcreepette]

thanks. I was also hearing some great things about Tropic Marin.

As far as corals, I think a red branching gorgonian would look wonderful on the left side of my tank. I just need to fine a photosynthetic one that does well in captivity. I have a pterogorgia (purple sea whip) that I've had for about two years that has done very well despite it being supposedly difficult to keep. So maybe I could do a pseudopterogorgia or something. Supposedly ones with thick branches, brown polyps and are from the Atlantic tend to do better.

Also, I would love to have a nice coco worm. and some bright ricordia, some green skirt zoas with the orange centers, some tonga blue mushrooms, or some bright porites or fungia. Anybody got frags of these I can buy? Maybe I need to be posting in the 'wanted' section ;)

by the way I went and got some kalk mix but I am hearing that is good for maintaining calcium levels, not raising them. Has anyone tackled a low calcium problem and if so, how did you raise it??? I want to be a little more proactive than waiting for water changes with a new salt to bring it up, esp since I have 150 gallons of IO left still.