ICP Feedback Wanted Please!

tuscani · Apr 22, 2024

Reef-a-Palooza was awesome. Highly recommend you check it out if you can. While away I got my ICP results back from ATI.. overall I think I am looking ok.. aside from elevated PO4 and NO3 which I am working on getting lower with more frequent water changes. Hopefully I start to see some better trace elements with this AFR. Right now I am only dosing 10ml day.

shakacuz · Apr 22, 2024

seems solid. other than iron and iodine(dose more), seems like you have good results.

Hans-Werner · Apr 23, 2024

Iodine is the only thing I would care about.

Ignore manganese and iron. Both are short-lived in reef tanks, so it is more normal not to find them than to find them. Ignore barium also. Phosphate is still ok in my eyes.

Malum Argenteum · Apr 23, 2024

A little odd that "chrome" is listed as an element on the chart.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Apr 23, 2024

I think it's a fine experiment to dose a mixture of trace elements since iodine and a variety of others are potentially low. Tropic Marine A and K may be a fine way to go.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Apr 23, 2024

Malum Argenteum said:
A little odd that "chrome" is listed as an element on the chart.

Presumably it's a translating software issue for chromium.

tuscani · Apr 24, 2024

I have been using AFR for about a month now.. so I suspect the Iodine should continue to rise no?

Randy Holmes-Farley · Apr 24, 2024

tuscani said:
I have been using AFR for about a month now.. so I suspect the Iodine should continue to rise no?

Dosing iodine does not mean it will rise. Algae and other organisms take it up. It will rise only if you dose more than is taken up or otherwise lost.