New tank icp test?

[Notsolostfish]

My icp test came with high silicon 790 MG is that normal for new tank?

Can somebody check on my icp test it’s a new tank. 4 weeks old.

https://www.triton-lab.de/en/showroom/icp-oes/187309

 

[dschuffert]

I just checked my ICP test. Mine is at 106 ppb and has fluctuated month to month (I test monthly). I am not sure if yours is high. When my tank was new, it had higher values.

 

[Notsolostfish]

I just checked my ICP test. Mine is at 106 ppb and has fluctuated month to month (I test monthly). I am not sure if yours is high. When my tank was new, it had higher values.

Got it, I also have chromium, aluminum, and high manganese.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Unless diatoms are at a problematic level, silicon values do not matter. I regularly dosed silicate.

The aluminum is likely not high enough to be a problem, but may come from white media of various sorts (phosguard, denitrification media, etc.). You using any?

Don't stress over small issues like the manganese. Values need not match the ICP companies targets. it is rapidly depleted and there is no concern even if it was much higher.