JonsNano
Active Member
Hi first off I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this so sorry if not.
I Just had the results of my first icp back and a few of the results worry me and just looking for some advice on correcting and if there should be any worry.
Little bit of a backstory but the tank has been up and running for well over a year and wasn’t a new tank as in I had to buy it/downsize
in an emergency to rehome what was left and living from my old tank(8-9years ish) which had a seam go in the night.
The tank ran really well and was growing sps mainly montis a birds nest and a couple of acro.
My doser line clogged somehow and I slowly watched my tank melt away over the course of a couple of weeks sadly before reacting, I had become complacent as I had been in a good place with everything seemingly streamlined and running well so I had been testing monthly instead of weekly for a while, major doh but hey we live and we learn I now test weekly again and will not change that.
So I have been through what feels like quite a few months getting stability back went through most of the uglies though briefly and only effected areas of die off(yeah I like my dead skeletons ‘not‘ I’ve just not got round to a little rescape and removal) with only nitrates as my major problem parameter.
I have coral and coralline(very slow) growth again for a while now so I do feel stability is/has returned.
I have stabilised nitrates for around a month at around 30ppm ish and I am going to start upping my elimi np dose and do a 25l water change to hopefully bring it between the 10-20 range, the tank looked good at 10ppm no3 and 0.1 po4 before so similar numbers i feel comfortable with.
I decided to do an icp as I want to keep sps again and have a small acro colony on order so like a dumb butt ordered the coral before I did the test though I do have a couple of days before coral arrives lol
Now to the icp I have raised aluminium which I think must be from the small amount of po4 remover I use, I’m going to sling this and possibly replace with a very finite amount of gfo, I do have NYos phosi ex on hand and from looking at the icp it does say gfo can help right some of the wrongs but I also have iron on what seems like the upper edge of the limit can gfo actually add to this?
Im going to do a 30-40% water change and hope this helps with things but know it will most probably only help with no3.
I have tm iodine on hand but don’t know if this would be best for dosing iodine?
The metals worry me and I am going to look for things in the sump which could be causing this, are these levels really that worrisome and is my new acro just going to melt lol ?
Sorry for all the questions and screenshots but I look forward to all opinions and advice!
I Just had the results of my first icp back and a few of the results worry me and just looking for some advice on correcting and if there should be any worry.
Little bit of a backstory but the tank has been up and running for well over a year and wasn’t a new tank as in I had to buy it/downsize
in an emergency to rehome what was left and living from my old tank(8-9years ish) which had a seam go in the night.The tank ran really well and was growing sps mainly montis a birds nest and a couple of acro.
My doser line clogged somehow and I slowly watched my tank melt away over the course of a couple of weeks sadly before reacting, I had become complacent as I had been in a good place with everything seemingly streamlined and running well so I had been testing monthly instead of weekly for a while, major doh but hey we live and we learn I now test weekly again and will not change that.
So I have been through what feels like quite a few months getting stability back went through most of the uglies though briefly and only effected areas of die off(yeah I like my dead skeletons ‘not‘ I’ve just not got round to a little rescape and removal) with only nitrates as my major problem parameter.
I have coral and coralline(very slow) growth again for a while now so I do feel stability is/has returned.
I have stabilised nitrates for around a month at around 30ppm ish and I am going to start upping my elimi np dose and do a 25l water change to hopefully bring it between the 10-20 range, the tank looked good at 10ppm no3 and 0.1 po4 before so similar numbers i feel comfortable with.
I decided to do an icp as I want to keep sps again and have a small acro colony on order so like a dumb butt ordered the coral before I did the test though I do have a couple of days before coral arrives lol
Now to the icp I have raised aluminium which I think must be from the small amount of po4 remover I use, I’m going to sling this and possibly replace with a very finite amount of gfo, I do have NYos phosi ex on hand and from looking at the icp it does say gfo can help right some of the wrongs but I also have iron on what seems like the upper edge of the limit can gfo actually add to this?
Im going to do a 30-40% water change and hope this helps with things but know it will most probably only help with no3.
I have tm iodine on hand but don’t know if this would be best for dosing iodine?
The metals worry me and I am going to look for things in the sump which could be causing this, are these levels really that worrisome and is my new acro just going to melt lol ?
Sorry for all the questions and screenshots but I look forward to all opinions and advice!
