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so.. the only thing that's highlighted light blue (on the website at least) is the silver, everything is else is white. i'm assuming the white background means acceptable range? light blue being..?

how does one go about mining silver from their tank at the .0011 ppm level :p

also what are the acceptable ranges for strontium and potassium? i've been dosing those in tiny amounts so curious what people think of those numbers in particular

Thanks!
 
I wouldn't necessarily take their word for it that your silver is elevated.
That company often has individual spurious numbers in their reports.
Even if it's correct, I'm not sure it matters; that level is only 1 ppb. (reference is 0.1 ppb.)

They're telling you there are detectable levels of many metals in the 1 to 50 ppb range, which I actually doubt are present at those levels. For example, uranium, lanthanum, arsenic, lead, titanium, tin, etc. Best if these are undetectable.
If you had your water tested by Triton or ATI, I bet many of those would not be detected ( <1 ppb.)

Your strontium is fine; reference level is 7.5 ppm so yours is only slightly higher.

Potassium is ok. Could be higher. I like to keep mine above 400.

Fairly high aluminum level, although that's not uncommon and probably has little effect.

Wouldn't hurt to have magnesium a bit higher, around 1400.

Iodine is ok but could also be higher. Ideal is around 60 ppb or 0.06 ppm.

Lithium is elevated; this is very common, mostly contamination from salt, likely doesn't mean much.

Phosphorus level of 0.11 ppm translates to a phosphate level of 0.33 ppm; pretty high.
 
Funny how they list them in chemical symbol alphabetical order, but use the actual chemical names.
Thus silver, Ag, is listed first.
 
I wouldn't necessarily take their word for it that your silver is elevated.
That company often has individual spurious numbers in their reports.
Even if it's correct, I'm not sure it matters; that level is only 1 ppb. (reference is 0.1 ppb.)

They're telling you there are detectable levels of many metals in the 1 to 50 ppb range, which I actually doubt are present at those levels. For example, uranium, lanthanum, arsenic, lead, titanium, tin, etc. Best if these are undetectable.
If you had your water tested by Triton or ATI, I bet many of those would not be detected ( <1 ppb.)

Your strontium is fine; reference level is 7.5 ppm so yours is only slightly higher.

Potassium is ok. Could be higher. I like to keep mine above 400.

Fairly high aluminum level, although that's not uncommon and probably has little effect.

Wouldn't hurt to have magnesium a bit higher, around 1400.

Iodine is ok but could also be higher. Ideal is around 60 ppb or 0.06 ppm.

Lithium is elevated; this is very common, mostly contamination from salt, likely doesn't mean much.

Phosphorus level of 0.11 ppm translates to a phosphate level of 0.33 ppm; pretty high.

interesting, thanks

yeah i took out my gfo a couple of weeks ago so i should probably replace that, apparently nopox dosing + refugium with chaeto doesn't help me much with phosphates, although i'm a feeding machine

i'll have to slightly increase my iodine and potassium dosing a bit, but not going to get too crazy since these ICP tests are the only way for me to test that stuff

so is ICP not the one to test water with? ATI and Triton are better? i just picked whatever popped up first on BRS
 

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