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I've over dosed iodine & just caught onto it. Is there a way to lower it other than water changes?

I've dosed it sparingly in my top off with good results & have been testing it but not so regularly. I began the red sea colors additives about a month ago & guess I disregarded the fact that those also contain iodine. So now it is off the chart. I've lost a few frags recently which prompted me to test for it.

I've been doing as many water changes as possible but I can only make 30g at a time, & my system is about 270g. So changing 30g at a time doesn't get rid of much iodine since obviously the new salt going in is just adding it back in at the proper amount. Just wondering if there is anything that might precipitate it out?
 
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What were you originally dosing?

Off the charts means what with what test?

In general, it is unlikely to hurt anything unless you did a big overdose with Lugols, IMO.

Iodide is rapidly depleted, so it should decline on its own.

Some folks have found very high levels of some sort of iodine species with Triton testing if they do not skim or do water changes,but I'm not sure what form it is taking in that case.
 
I was using seachem iodide I think in top off, and a few, 4 or 5 drops of lugols each time I filled top off, straight to the sump. Which equates to once a week about. Then the Daily Red Sea colors parts A,B,C,D which I believe C or D is an iodine addtive.

I use a red sea test for iodine which usually reads .06 or lower (.06 being the target) and now has been .09 which is as high as it goes. Its stayed now as .09 even after I stopped dosing and have been changing 30g per day for the last 3 days.

I first noticed it so high after one of my bulletproof acro colonies began to RTN in abnormal areas. Followed by 4 more acros frags that completely RTN'd. My "bulletproof colony stopped the RTN the first day after I changed 30g. The others were small and perished quickly. Last being a Pink Lemonade which was encrusting like crazy.
 
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I wouldn't do anything special in that circumstance except not add iodine for a while and then restart once it gets back to your normal target range.

FWIW, I personally think iodine additions are not useful for most reefs, and when I stopped dosing it after doing so for years, I saw no difference. Quite a number of people have had that same experience. There actually is no scientifically documented need for iodine in almost any species we keep, except certain gorgonia.
 
Noted, I'll not be dosing any of the red sea stuff anymore. Aside from the aminos. I did another water change today, I also noticed another frag half rtn'd hopefully that's the last one. it's getting sad.
 
Update on this. Over the last 2 weeks I've slowly and painfully watched as 2 or 3 or 5 acros per night have rtn'd. I had over 50 across and I'm down to my last few. Some have been growing for close to 2 years and were just starting to look good from across my house. Last night my oldest Joe the coral colony began to stn as well as a big green slimer and heart breakingly my beautiful plum crazy.

Strangely enough, the first one effected, ck stag, has began encrusting back over the dead spots. I changed several hundred gallons of water over the last few weeks and all parameters spot on as they have been for the years prior to this, the whole time with the exception of the iodine. It took over 150g of water change to get the iodine back down to normal level. I'm convinced this was from the iodine od, although I ordered a Triton test when I figured this out just in case there was something more going on. Results should be soon for that test I think.

Almost all else is fine except for acans which are slowly recovering. Monti, ZOA's, other lps, stylos, etc all are fine aside from my gold torch, one out of 4 hammer colonies, and one frog spawn. That's only a dent in my euphillia but the torch is painful. I look very closely daily for acro pests and see no signs at all.

Very sad month.
 
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I'm very sorry to hear of your coral problems. Hopefully it is on the road to recovery.

FWIW, I'd be very surprised if this really did result from the iodine overdose. I know that many people have overdosed before without such issues.
 
Hopefully I'll know this week when the Triton test comes back. What has happened so far does match the description in the red sea colors book in regard to iodine over dose but was dosing all of their product line so could be more than one thing. Iron and potassium tested right in range though. Whatever I did, wiped almost all my across though along with all the other normally tested for elements. I'd estimate a couple thousand dollars worth. It's just very sad to watch, with nothing I really could do.
 
Sorry to read this. I fear this everyday but we are all still learning you will be fine it's only money.
 
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Triggreef said:
Hopefully I'll know this week when the Triton test comes back. What has happened so far does match the description in the red sea colors book in regard to iodine over dose but was dosing all of their product line so could be more than one thing. Iron and potassium tested right in range though. Whatever I did, wiped almost all my across though along with all the other normally tested for elements. I'd estimate a couple thousand dollars worth. It's just very sad to watch, with nothing I really could do.
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What iron level?

I don't recommend enough iron to test with a kit. Surface NSW levels are way lower than any kit or Triton can detect.
 
I would have to go look at the test kit. It's the red sea coral color kit, tests for iron, potassium, and iodine. I don't put much weight into these tests but it never showed high for anything except iodine.
 
FWIW, a few folks are getting very high iodine values with the Triton test (up to 1 ppm).

I'm not sure what that is from since I've never seen people get kit results anywhere near that high and iodide itself is usually rapidly depleted. It might be organic forms of iodine that accumulate in tanks with little skimming or water changes.
 
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Yes, but not on a regular schedule. I run 2 denitrators that keep nutrients in check. When I do change water it's 30g at a time. 250 to 270g in the system. I have probably been doing more than usual the last few months because I've been quarantining fish, and I use my old reef water for the quarantine. I also run a reactor with gfo and one with carbon.

I dose c balance 2 part in equal amounts which has always done well for me. I did notice my Ca dropping more than usual lately and got down to 350 at about when I noticed the iodine thing. I used some seachem ca to bring it up to 400 over a week or so, and last night it tested at only 370.

Haven't tested mg in a long time as my test kit dried up on me. I always had it around 1300 though. I always add 30ml of tech m mg to my ago to keep up with it, which is about once a week. I also dose 30ml of bright well vit c through the ago. I was using seachem iodide also in my ago at about 25ml, which I stopped now. Aside from that I started with lugols about 4 drops a week in the sump, plus the red sea colors which contains iodine about the same time I started lugols. That's about when things went bad.

Also run multiple macro algae in my fuge, and a waterfall ATS that I never clean and need a better light for I think.
 
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So I got my results from Triton today. I'll figure out how to post them later but for now the biggest concern I have is that a fairly large amount of copper (I think) was detected. It was 4.20 whatever that measurement is.

The iodine was also high as expected, but it wasn't like crazy high. I have no idea why theres copper or what it could possibly be from.
 
Lost almost all acros over the last month or so. I had over 50 and many getting to be good size colonies. Flesh just peeled right off the acros that died. I believe I overdosed iodine but I did change about 150 gallons over a weeks time prior to sending this sample to triton, so anything that is still high (per triton), should be considered to have been much higher than what the test shows I guess. I have 7 acros left out of 50. All other sps is perfectly fine, except all my acans are really ticked off. Lost my gold torch and looks like a couple hammers now ejecting heads. But many euphillia still look perfect. Chalices, blastos, lobos, zoas, montis, stylos, birdsnests, all still look great.


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OK, yes, the new water changes might have dropped whatever it was, making it hard to interpret.

I'd also boost the magnesium, watch the zinc (and look for possible sources like metals close to or in the water), and maybe lower the phosphate. :)
 

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