ICP test results - help with aluminium

[jdm85]

From the looks of my ICP test it’s looking like everything is good other than high levels of aluminium. Is this value high enough to cause possible issues

see attached

any suggestions

 

[brmreefer]

I would say it is possible.

Potential sources that come to mind are as follows:

• Aluminum oxide - used in PO4 reduction
• Heard marine pure bio-block leach Aluminum, but no personal experience with said product, so can't confirm.

So far that is what comes to mind. Recommend water changes over time to aid.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I'm not sure it is high enough to be a problem (250 ug/L was OK in my tests, 500 ug/L was not), but it is substantial.

Are you using any white media of any sort?

 

[jdm85]

Marinepure
But to release that amount of aluminum seems a bit high.

moral of the story all of my corals die or start to reseed

lights are not the issue as most of my soft corals sit in 150 par range max using xr15 gen5 so I wanted to do an icp test to see what’s going on