ATI Results

[Vagabond]

Got my results yesterday and had some questions on some of the issues raised by the results.
Just about everything came back good, or normal range except.
Zinc 0 should be 1.97
Barrium 2.21 should be 9.85
Manganese 0 should be 0.99
Iodine 18.88 should be 64.04
Phosphorus 4.98 should be 14.78
Po4 0.02 should be 0.04
Nitrate 21.26 should be 2.00
Tin 27.26 should be 0.49
Can I get away with doing more water changes instead of dosing the elements that I'm low on?
Also,how harmful would Tin at those levels be to maintain acros,and how is it introduce in the tank?I'm using a 5 stage spectra pure rodi.
My No3 has caught me by surprise i use a hanna checker and I got a reading of 11.0 at the time I collected the water sample.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Crustaceon]

Got my results yesterday and had some questions on some of the issues raised by the results.
Just about everything came back good, or normal range except.
Zinc 0 should be 1.97
Barrium 2.21 should be 9.85
Manganese 0 should be 0.99
Iodine 18.88 should be 64.04
Phosphorus 4.98 should be 14.78
Po4 0.02 should be 0.04
Nitrate 21.26 should be 2.00
Tin 27.26 should be 0.49
Can I get away with doing more water changes instead of dosing the elements that I'm low on?
Also,how harmful would Tin at those levels be to maintain acros,and how is it introduce in the tank?I'm using a 5 stage spectra pure rodi.
My No3 has caught me by surprise i use a hanna checker and I got a reading of 11.0 at the time I collected the water sample.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Look for anything rusty that could come into contact with the water. That'll explain the elevated tin. Water changes will help with that, trace elements and the elevated nitrates. I'd also recommend sticking around 5ppm nitrates. Most of us start getting into "dino country" around 2ppm.

 

[Vagabond]

Look for anything rusty that could come into contact with the water. That'll explain the elevated tin. Water changes will help with that, trace elements and the elevated nitrates. I'd also recommend sticking around 5ppm nitrates. Most of us start getting into "dino country" around 2ppm.

checked and couldn't find anything that's rusty in the display and sump.Got 2 mp10's and nothing, also the heater in the sump,i use plastic clamps for the return hose.But will be doing water changes more frequently.I also have some gfo that I might try out if the nitrates don't come down with just the water changes.I wonder why my hanna checker reads half of what the icp is telling me?Ccrustaceon,thanks for your input

 

[nereefpat]

I don't see anything concerning there. I wouldn't spend much time or effort trying to change any of that.

Some elements are rapidly depleted in most of our tanks, like Iodine.
"High" tin shows up in most of the ICP tests posted here. It apparently isn't usually harmful.

On the nitrate result: ICP can't give you a value for nitrate. It can tell you total N in a water sample. I would lean more on your Hanna checker. 10-20 ppm nitrate is fine anyway.

 

[Vagabond]

I don't see anything concerning there. I wouldn't spend much time or effort trying to change any of that.

Some elements are rapidly depleted in most of our tanks, like Iodine.
"High" tin shows up in most of the ICP tests posted here. It apparently isn't usually harmful.

On the nitrate result: ICP can't give you a value for nitrate. It can tell you total N in a water sample. I would lean more on your Hanna checker. 10-20 ppm nitrate is fine anyway.

you're right about the tin being high on a lot of peoples tanks, saw that in posts since 2017,'ll be doing water changes every week instead of three weeks.Thanks nereefpat