Need help with ICP-ANALYSIS results

[yozz]

OK, so I need a little help for this one…

I have a 2 years-old Red Sea Reefer 250, with 7 small fishes, softies and LPS corals.

Parameters are very stable:

• Temps 25
• Salinity 1.024
• Cal 400
• Alk 8.2/8.4 (dosing 6 times a day)
• Mag 1200, raising it slowly to 1280
• Nitrate 4
• Phosphate 0,1
• Dosing (with 2 Kamoer pumps) Red Sea Foundation ABC + Trace colors ABCD (according to calcium consumption) + NoPox (0,5ml/day).
• Using a Eshopps 120 skimmer and 2 MP40.
• 5% water change every week.
• 3 Prime HD giving 100 PAR on bottom, 300 middle and 500 at the very top.

I sent a sample to icp-analysis.com because of 2 things:

1. I think some of my soft corals lost their most yellowish and orange tints. Like my zoas and a mushroom. That's the main reason why I sent ICP test.
2. Even if I have what I think is good coral growth, I tried SPS 5 times and every time they die (bird nest, acro, monti).

So my icp-analysis.com results are:

My questions are:

1. Should I do something for Sulfur and Molybdenum?
2. Strontium looks way too high, I dose Trace ABCD, what should I do?
3. Arsenic seams correct? As they pretend there is 0.008 in Hawaii and 0.010 in Fidji?
4. Can any of these parameters make SPS die or softies loose some colors?

Thank you very much for your help!

 

[jurgenph]

dose magnesium sulphate.
it will take care of both low Mg and S.

i would also do a few larger weekly water changes (20% maybe), that should balance things out as well.


J.

 

[daelie]

Tin, Lead, Tungsten at non-zeros might suggest you have something corroding in or near the water. There is certainly some anecdotal evidence that these are contributing to some of the coral loss you're seeing, especially SPS corals.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Are there fish? What type of foods fed to them?

 

[yozz]

Tin, Lead, Tungsten at non-zeros might suggest you have something corroding in or near the water. There is certainly some anecdotal evidence that these are contributing to some of the coral loss you're seeing, especially SPS corals.

Thank you, I just checked everything for rust and all looks like not corroding.

 

[yozz]

Are there fish? What type of foods fed to them?

1 royal gramma
1 black clown
1 purple firefish
1 six-line wrasse
1 kole tang
1 banggai cardinal

Feeding Tropic marine and brine + mysis every night, + nori for the tang. Fishes look very healthy.