high element readings on Triton

[nick9one1]

I have a few high readings on my first ICP test for a 3 month old Reefer 250.

Full results: https://www.triton-lab.de/en/showroom/icp-oes/145566

I'm doing 2 weekly 20% waterchanges with iQuatics Ocean Reef Pro salt.
Dosing ATI Essentials Pro 2 part.
I have a Roller filter with a 9 micron roll, dosing lanthanum chloride.

I sure lanthanum chloride dosing is causing the high lanthanum reading. I'm currently dosing 12ml a day (which is quite a lot) to keep Po4 at 0.03.
Is this too much?

Iron - it's in the red but 15µg/L doesn't seem like loads. Seachem clarity may be the cause of this - I'd had cloudy water for a week despite uv and a 9 micron filter, so I dosed a small amount of clarity (which worked very well!) .Looking at the SDS it says;

"Proprietary aqueous solution of iron salt and other ingredients, including polymeric flocculating agent"

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/µg/L​

Zinc - not sure about this one, but I'm sure I've read its often high in reef tanks?

Barium - this seems very high! Triton suggests this..

Your Barium levels are too high.

Check for possible contamination source. To help you in your search for the source of error, we have listed the most common sources of Barium (sorted in descending order of frequency):

1. Phosphate iron-based (except ROWAphos or PhosBan)
2. Contaminated salts
3. Contaminated trace elements, in particular strontium
4. Dried fishfood
Use AL99 PO4 remover to remove Barium

 

[JMetaxas]

You may want to change your salt mix. Although I never heard of that brand, switching to something that has a track record of good element levels might be a good move.

 

[nick9one1]

Thanks for the suggestion. Its worth saying that I used this salt in my last tank and had no issues - the elevated levels I have now were at normal levels.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I'm not sure any of these are an actual problem. Only one that may be, IMO, is the zinc.

Do tank organisms seem to thrive normally?

 

[nick9one1]

Thanks Randy.

Fish, inverts, softies and LPS are all fine. I've noticed a few acro's loose a bit of colour and in some cases a slight amount of tissue loss but this seems to have stopped. I'm not sure weather this is just down to the tank being 3 months old.