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IMO you Alk is solid where it is. If you raise you cal now that will drop. Do the mag first then cal. The calculator on BRS will tell you how much you can add at once.
I had great luck doing it this way. I would dose both cal and Alk a few min apart right before bed, then again in the morning before I left for work. I was very seldom that I forgot to do it. If I did I would just do it as soon as possible. I recently started using dosers but those seem to be...
Just curious. Is the clip in the tank all the time. My hippo will hide from anything new. My clip is in the tank all the time. I only take it out to add more nori.
Give it time. It will get used to it. Mine did the same thing in the beginning. You could try the rock trick too. I've also seen where people tie a piece of PVC pipe to fishing line and let it hang free in the tank with a piece of nori.