As well as the above, you may also need to get seperate additives for the alk and Ca. Balanced additives are great but if the chemistry is imbalanced, the additive you are using in particular will not be able to fix the problem. It will actually make it worse. Once you know the alk level, repost both and we can go from there. Until then, I would suggest discontinuing the use of the aragamilk and do a few good sized water changes with well aged/aerated SW to help regain the balance (saltmix depending).tbrock said:I've been using aragamilk because i thought it was supposed to balance clacium and alkalinity, could that be the problem? All other levels are good, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate are 0 and ph is 8.2.