Help with raising specific major/minor elements after ICP test

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Hello everyone,

I’m hoping you guys can give me some ideas/suggestions on options for raising some deficient major/minor elements from my last ICP test. I have highlighted the areas I would like some assistance with in red. Some these are based on the "reef moonshiners" program calculations which I am not/do not necessarily follow, but I enjoyed the simplicity of their calculator and have heard good things about the regimine. However given how small some of these corrections are, I'm hesitant about buying $250 worth of additives ( :oops: ) when I'm sure they can be DIY'ed or obtained elsewhere. I have inbound some potassium chloride and reef iodide to correct K and I, what can I do to help raise the other elements to their correct levels? Anything else that you see that may need some tweaks? I realize salinity is a bit high, I'll bring that down shortly. Thank you all very much!

Salinity36.63 PSU35.00 PSU+1.63 PSU
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Carbonate hardness8.14 °dKH7.50 °dKH+0.64 °dKH
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Major elements
Chloride20942 mg/l20243 mg/l+699.2 mg/l
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Sodium10858 mg/l11246 mg/l-388.4 mg/l
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Magnesium1816 mg/l1344 mg/l+471.8 mg/l
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Sulfur1017 mg/l940.6 mg/l+75.93 mg/l
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Calcium438.6 mg/l430.4 mg/l+8.13 mg/l
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Potassium - increase by 66ml per day for 2 days. Potassium chloride ordered375.6 mg/l417.1 mg/l-41.50 mg/l
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Bromine - increase by 25.5ml per day for 3 days63.13 mg/l68.50 mg/l-5.37 mg/l
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Strontium - increase by 3.25ml per day for 3 days7.21 mg/l8.18 mg/l-0.97 mg/l
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Boron - increase by 37.75ml per day for 4 days2.81 mg/l4.50 mg/l-1.69 mg/l
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Fluorine - increase by 17.5ml per day for 4 days1.13 mg/l1.33 mg/l-0.20 mg/l
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Minor elements
Lithium279.2 µg/l173.8 µg/l+105.4 µg/l
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Silicon122.9 µg/l102.2 µg/l+20.64 µg/l
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Iodine - Seachem reef iodide ordered15.01 µg/l66.46 µg/l-51.45 µg/l
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Barium28.18 µg/l10.22 µg/l+17.95 µg/l
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Molybdenum - increase by 5ml per day for 3 days7.03 µg/l12.27 µg/l-5.24 µg/l
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Nickel - increase by .95ml per day for 5 daysu.0.51 µg/l-0.51 µg/l
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Manganeseu.1.02 µg/l-1.02 µg/l
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Arsenicu.1.53 µg/l-1.53 µg/l
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Berylliumu.0.10 µg/l-0.10 µg/l
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Chromeu.0.51 µg/l-0.51 µg/l
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Cobaltu.0.10 µg/l-0.10 µg/l
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Ironu.0.51 µg/l-0.51 µg/l
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Copperu.0.51 µg/l-0.51 µg/l
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Seleniumu.0.51 µg/l-0.51 µg/l
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Silveru.0.10 µg/l-0.10 µg/l
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Vanadiumu.1.53 µg/l-1.53 µg/l
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Zinc3.56 µg/l2.04 µg/l+1.51 µg/l
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Tinu.0.51 µg/l-0.51 µg/l
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Nutrients
Nitrate7.28 mg/l2.00 mg/l+5.28 mg/l
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Phosphorus3.80 µg/l15.34 µg/l-11.54 µg/l
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Phosphate0.01 mg/l0.05 mg/l-0.03 mg/l
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Pollutants
Aluminium15.07 µg/l0.10 µg/l+14.97 µg/l
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Antimonyu.0.10 µg/l-0.10 µg/l
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Bismuthu.0.10 µg/l-0.10 µg/l
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Leadu.0.10 µg/l-0.10 µg/l
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Cadmiumu.0.20 µg/l-0.20 µg/l
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Lanthanumu.0 µg/l+0 µg/l
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Thalliumu.0.10 µg/l-0.10 µg/l
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Titaniumu.0.10 µg/l-0.10 µg/l
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Tungstenu.0 µg/l+0 µg/l
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Mercuryu.0 µg/l+0 µg/l
 
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Well this was a dumb post, essentially right after I found that the tropic marin K+ and A- additives have essentially everything that I needed, albeit not in the exact quantities the RM method suggests, which I am fine with. I am going to dose the recommended values for a few weeks then send off another ICP test to see where things land.
 

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Which company are we talking about here?

What is the 35 ppt column supposed to be?

IMO, the bromine and strontium are quite close to NSW levels and I wouldn’t focus on them.
 
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Which company are we talking about here?

What is the 35 ppt column supposed to be?

IMO, the bromine and strontium are quite close to NSW levels and I wouldn’t focus on them.

The legend himself! Thanks for stopping by Sir.

As for which company, I'm assuming you mean which ICP test? This was an ATI ICP-OES run. Let me know if I misunderstood the question there.

Columns above are: actual value | recommended value | deviation from recommended value

Thanks for the advice on the Br & Sr. I've picked up some Seachem iodide, some potassium chloride, tropic marin K+ and A-

Pro-Coral K+ Trace 1 Contains:

  • Barium
  • Boron
  • Chrome
  • Cobalt
  • Iron
  • Copper
  • Manganese
  • Nickel
  • Strontium
  • Zinc
Pro-Coral A- Trace 2 Contains:

  • Bromine
  • Fluorine
  • Iodine
  • Lithium
  • Molybdenum
  • Selenium
  • Vanadium
So with those 4 I believe I'll be in a good spot and wont have to manually "eye dropper" in 6 different solutions each day.
 
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Thanks. :)

That sounds like a reasonable plan.

Magnesium seems quite high. Have you been dosing any?

Yeah, mag is a bit higher than expected, my last salifert test showed ~1750. I've been dosing BRS's mag supplement for years (along with their Ca and Alk) but more recently I've had some sandbed algal issues that I couldn't really pin down, and at least back in the day it was thought high mag would help inhibit algae growth, so I figured why not (as I don't believe it has any adverse effects at these levels) but spoiler alert, it hasn't helped. :)
 
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