Help With My Triton Readings

[Kyler]

Hey Guys

Our tank had a mini crash and we lost a few frogspawn and some mushrooms. Our Acans, Gonis, Blastos, Softies, and zoos all seem to be fine. Nothing changed and we went from a thriving tank to a semi sad tank over about 2 weeks. While all seems to be recovered now we send a triton test in the middle of the crash and heres the readings. I don't fully understand what they mean and if i need to dose the items that are red or figure out how to get them out of our tank

Any help is awesome. Thanks Guys

 

[JoshKReef]

What salt do you use? How often do you do water changes? Do you use RODI water when you do water changes?

 

[bubblemytip]

The triton results page has a 'help' tab up the top with information too, as a first port-of-call, with some suggestions of next steps.

 

[Kyler]

What salt do you use? How often do you do water changes? Do you use RODI water when you do water changes?

We use HW marinemix. Been using it for 2 years with great results. We have our own RODI filter. Our tank is 120 gallons and we do one 20 gallon water change every week.

 

[Kyler]

The triton results page has a 'help' tab up the top with information too, as a first port-of-call, with some suggestions of next steps.

Thanks for pointing that out i didn't see that. Now i know why people love these tests lol! lots of helpful info in the help section.

 

[BigJohnny]

Wow, so apparently you have 3.7ppm phosphate (highest I have ever heard of or seen ever), and 300 ug/l Iodine which is 5x what it should be. If those were accurate, I'm not sure your tank would be OK now as you say it is.

I would be very surprised if this was an accurate test. It is possible that your sample was contaminated by some food particles or other organic matter. That is my opinion.

The high vanadium is concerning as well however I am not familiar enough with that element to know if it also could be raised by sample contamination.

Do you dose iodine?

 

[JoshKReef]

Do you have a TDS meter on your RODI unit? What is it at each point?

I'd also like to know what the input is if you don't have a meter at that spot.

I agree, your phosphorus readings are wild.

 

[Kyler]

Wow, so apparently you have 3.7ppm phosphate (highest I have ever heard of or seen ever), and 300 ug/l Iodine which is 5x what it should be. If those were accurate, I'm not sure your tank would be OK now as you say it is.

I would be very surprised if this was an accurate test. It is possible that your sample was contaminated by some food particles or other organic matter. That is my opinion.

The high vanadium is concerning as well however I am not familiar enough with that element to know if it also could be raised by sample contamination.

Do you dose iodine?

It says on the test that it can’t test iodine due to high phosphate. My personal kits show .03 so not sure I can trust it either but have heard it’s pretty failsafe testing

 

[Kyler]

Do you have a TDS meter on your RODI unit? What is it at each point?

I'd also like to know what the input is if you don't have a meter at that spot.

I agree, your phosphorus readings are wild.

No TDS meter

 

[Kyler]

Wow, so apparently you have 3.7ppm phosphate (highest I have ever heard of or seen ever), and 300 ug/l Iodine which is 5x what it should be. If those were accurate, I'm not sure your tank would be OK now as you say it is.

I would be very surprised if this was an accurate test. It is possible that your sample was contaminated by some food particles or other organic matter. That is my opinion.

The high vanadium is concerning as well however I am not familiar enough with that element to know if it also could be raised by sample contamination.

Do you dose iodine?

Also no we have never dosed iodine

 

[Kyler]

Everything in the tank is happy as can be today. Not sure what’s going on. We plan on and have started a 25% water change that we will do every week for 6 weeks then we will test again.

We live in a city where water quality is poor. Tons of calcium buildup, and junk in the water. We own a restaurant and we spend 10k a year on filtering the water for our ice and soda machines- something we have to do or our machines quit working so I’m curious if the RODI unit is gummed up (it’s been making 15-20 gallons a week for roughly 6 months now)

 

[BigJohnny]

It says on the test that it can’t test iodine due to high phosphate. My personal kits show .03 so not sure I can trust it either but have heard it’s pretty failsafe testing

Can't say I've heard that before, can't test iodine due to high phosphate huh? Interesting.

Another way you could get high iodine test result is if you run ozone. It produces compounds that can show up as iodine on a test.

I wouldn't trust the po4 that much, my triton po4 results are never in line with any other test I use. If the tanks doing fine now just move on. If you start getting crazy algae, browned out/dying corals, etc, then maybe try and GRADUALLY bring down that phosphate a little bit lol.

 

[BigJohnny]

Everything in the tank is happy as can be today. Not sure what’s going on. We plan on and have started a 25% water change that we will do every week for 6 weeks then we will test again.

We live in a city where water quality is poor. Tons of calcium buildup, and junk in the water. We own a restaurant and we spend 10k a year on filtering the water for our ice and soda machines- something we have to do or our machines quit working so I’m curious if the RODI unit is gummed up (it’s been making 15-20 gallons a week for roughly 6 months now)

How do you know your Rodi is even working without a tds meter?

 

[JoshKReef]

You should invest in this.

https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/trip...FWusL1D2GmKzfUBnnvCnj4CthRoDjCphoCI2wQAvD_BwE

I would put one before the water enters your RODI unit, one after membrane, and one after DI resin.

When I turn my unit on, I checked the input TDS, then I do not start using the water until my after membrane reading is under 10% of the input, and 0 after the DI.

If I can't get to under 10% of my input, I replace my membrane