Heavy Metal Tank - First ICP

[BeejReef]

Triton Lab Showroom - Explore this water test results and click on the image above.

Someone wants to show you the water test results and shared this link to the evaluation. Click on the image above to explore the water test results.

www.triton-lab.de

Any thoughts are welcome.

First, how concerned should I be about the heavy metals and lithium?

Also, I don't understand the unit of measurement Triton is using for salinity. It's not specific gravity or parts per thousand. It's in mg/l of sodium?? I've googled like crazy and can't find a conversion.

Lastly, I'm not seeing alkalinity/carbonate hardness in the results. I had hoped to use them as a reference to reveal any bias in my at home test kits. Can someone give me a clue plz?

It's also telling me my phosphate is a touch high. Interweb says mg/l = ppm. Are they seriously targeting .02ppm as preferred and calling .05 high? I've been dosing the snot out of P04 and my checker has been telling me .1 to .15

Very basic system. 65g DT, 20g sump, bag of carbon, big chaeto fuge, miracle mud, black sand

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[BeejReef]

Friday night bump

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Lithium is no concern, typically. Some of the other metals may be a concern, and the presence of so much iron seems unusual if you are not dosing it. Are you dosing any trace element additives?

Look for metal parts in the water.

Are you using tap water?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Icp can’t measure alkalinity.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Salinity can be in mg/l or g/l, but sodium in mg/l is not salinity.

 

[Billldg]

As far as some elements being high, they are basing their results on the fact that you want to follow their triton method. So, for some, a phosphate reading of .05 may be high while others want it around .08. I just sent in my first triton test, curious to see what they say about my tank.

 

[BeejReef]

Lithium is no concern, typically. Some of the other metals may be a concern, and the presence of so much iron seems unusual if you are not dosing it. Are you dosing any trace element additives?

Look for metal parts in the water.

Are you using tap water?

Ty Randy and Bill.

No dosing other than some miracle mud in sump. I run rodi 0 tds. Went on hunt for rust and found metal clamp in mix bin, barely oxidized. Rusty hinges on stand. I believe the main culprit is my ufo fuge light. Screws, mounts, and hanging wire were bad and adjacent to its cooling fan. It's hekd together w zip ties now and mounted w stainless