TEST RESULTS
Hello,
I have a 90-gallon SPS tank that has been running for over two months seeded rock from a 1-year and 6 month system. i dose tropic Marin AFR. i do a water change every 3 weeks at 10% with Tropic Marin pro reef salt
i keep my tank at around
salinity at 1.025 ( i believe that the tank was around 1.023/24 gravity at the time of taking icp sample and since then has been fixed) I'm gonna bump to 1.026
Temp: 77.0-78.0
Alk: 6-12 Dkh
Cal: 400-450
Mag:1380-1450
PH: 8.10-8.30
NO3: 14ppm
PO4: 0.01
For dosing, i put tropic marin AFR into the tank and that fix's my calcium and alkalinity but my magnesium i have to spot dose because the mag won't rise up in the tank. this might be because my tank may consume more mag and the all-for reef keeps it from moving. I'm not sure tho. i use red sea magnesium powder and mix it with RO/DI.
Macros:
potassium- Deficient
Sodium- Deficient
Chlorine-Deficient
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should i dose potassium?
as for sodium, i don't think that's a problem because i have increased my salinity since then
Not sure why but chlorine is showing up does anyone know the fix for this? i had the same macro deficiency in my last ICP.
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Trace and minor elements:
Molybdenum-deficient
Nickel-Deficient
Manganese-deficient (Not detected)
Rubidium-deficient
Selenium-elevated
Lithium-Elevated
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I am dosing Tropic Marin AFR twice daily and says it has all of the trace elements in it. i don't doubt it but does this mean my corals are consuming these elements more? follow-up question is what product to use to dose this?
Selenium and lithium are elevated. should i be worried or just leave it?
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Contaminants:
Aluminum: elevated it says optimal levels are 0.020 but 0.124. would this be something that is leeching? i got a BRS heater that's titanium and a protein skimmer and some probes for Neptune and an extra PH probe. and that's about it. not sure what to do about this
cesium: elevated( elevated by 0.02) not really worried about this because its right above normal limits into an elevated level
Cadmium: elevated
any help would be great. thanks!
Hello,
I have a 90-gallon SPS tank that has been running for over two months seeded rock from a 1-year and 6 month system. i dose tropic Marin AFR. i do a water change every 3 weeks at 10% with Tropic Marin pro reef salt
i keep my tank at around
salinity at 1.025 ( i believe that the tank was around 1.023/24 gravity at the time of taking icp sample and since then has been fixed) I'm gonna bump to 1.026
Temp: 77.0-78.0
Alk: 6-12 Dkh
Cal: 400-450
Mag:1380-1450
PH: 8.10-8.30
NO3: 14ppm
PO4: 0.01
For dosing, i put tropic marin AFR into the tank and that fix's my calcium and alkalinity but my magnesium i have to spot dose because the mag won't rise up in the tank. this might be because my tank may consume more mag and the all-for reef keeps it from moving. I'm not sure tho. i use red sea magnesium powder and mix it with RO/DI.
Macros:
potassium- Deficient
Sodium- Deficient
Chlorine-Deficient
---------------------------------------------------------
should i dose potassium?
as for sodium, i don't think that's a problem because i have increased my salinity since then
Not sure why but chlorine is showing up does anyone know the fix for this? i had the same macro deficiency in my last ICP.
------------------------------------
Trace and minor elements:
Molybdenum-deficient
Nickel-Deficient
Manganese-deficient (Not detected)
Rubidium-deficient
Selenium-elevated
Lithium-Elevated
-----------------------------------------------
I am dosing Tropic Marin AFR twice daily and says it has all of the trace elements in it. i don't doubt it but does this mean my corals are consuming these elements more? follow-up question is what product to use to dose this?
Selenium and lithium are elevated. should i be worried or just leave it?
------------------------------------------------
Contaminants:
Aluminum: elevated it says optimal levels are 0.020 but 0.124. would this be something that is leeching? i got a BRS heater that's titanium and a protein skimmer and some probes for Neptune and an extra PH probe. and that's about it. not sure what to do about this
cesium: elevated( elevated by 0.02) not really worried about this because its right above normal limits into an elevated level
Cadmium: elevated
any help would be great. thanks!
