First week result with Neptune Trident. Anything not abnormal?

canadianeh · Jul 30, 2020

Here are the charts of my Alk, Cal, and Mag on the first week with Neptune Trident. I have not calibrated yet as indicated by the manual after 48 hours of installation. I plan to do that tomorrow as many people waited longer than 48 hours to calibrated.

I noticed that my Calcium passed 500. What is causing this? I am not dosing any Alk or Cal. Only Red Sea AB+.

do you see anything of concern and abnormal?

Hydrored · Jul 30, 2020

Did you do a water change since setting up

Smarkow · Jul 30, 2020

I had this issue. I read on a separate forum here that it was an error in the trident sucking up reagent from either the blue or green bottles as they got empty, where the metal tube was sucking air and throwing off the amt of reagent the Trident thought it was using. This lead to a falsely elevated test.

I purchased a $25 set of 3d printed cones from @Brasileiro561 that solved the problem for me

canadianeh · Jul 31, 2020

Hydrored said:
Did you do a water change since setting up

I did WC in the weekend

canadianeh · Jul 31, 2020

Smarkow said:
I had this issue. I read on a separate forum here that it was an error in the trident sucking up reagent from either the blue or green bottles as they got empty, where the metal tube was sucking air and throwing off the amt of reagent the Trident thought it was using. This lead to a falsely elevated test.

I purchased a $25 set of 3d printed cones from @Brasileiro561 that solved the problem for me

Mine is brand new

Smarkow · Jul 31, 2020

canadianeh said:
Mine is brand new

Hmmmmmm not sure what to say. Good luck!

User1 · Jul 31, 2020

You have enough samples go ahead and calibrate. There isn't anything abnormal as it is just collecting data. The calibration fluid is a "known" reference and it will run a couple of tests to compare and then Bob's your Uncle.

I believe the water change question was:

Did you do a water change after installing the trident and if so did it run a couple tests before the change and then a couple tests after? That could explain the dip.

In any case it is time to run through the calibration and let us know how that goes.