Triton result question

Vincenc · Dec 15, 2017

I received my results back and got a couple questions
Important for your aquarium It is recommended I dose:
I: iodine.
Sr: strontium.
B: boron.

Not important but beneficial for your aquarium recommended I dose
Br: bromine
Li: lithium.
S: sulphur.
Also recommended I fine tune by raising my V, MD, MN, NI, ZN

I know my phos says it is low But on my Hanna ULR I get between 7-9 ppb.
I will take this as a calibration and adjust by hanna reading
My question is should I not be able to get my parameters in check with just water changes?
Except for Iodine which will probable not dose.
How do my results look?

Thanks
Vince

Randy Holmes-Farley · Dec 15, 2017

Vincenc said:
I received my results back and got a couple questions
Important for your aquarium It is recommended I dose:
I: iodine.
Sr: strontium.
B: boron.

Not important but beneficial for your aquarium recommended I dose
Br: bromine
Li: lithium.
S: sulphur.
Also recommended I fine tune by raising my V, MD, MN, NI, ZN

I know my phos says it is low But on my Hanna ULR I get between 7-9 ppb.
I will take this as a calibration and adjust by hanna reading
My question is should I not be able to get my parameters in check with just water changes?
Except for Iodine which will probable not dose.
How do my results look?

Thanks
Vince

Looks pretty good to me.

Personally, I do not agree with Triton on the importance of some of these.

I do not consider any of the top three important to dose, and I expect if you do (which is fine) you will see no difference. The boron (borate) is almost normal, and I certainly wouldn't bother. I and many others have experimented with iodide dosing with no apparent benefit, but it is fine to experiment with. Strontium is not useful, IMO.

It is nonsense to suggest that folks dose lithium. It has no known natural biological role. It is also close to normal in your case.

Forget the sulfur (sulfate). It is close to normal and is driven by the salt mix and dosing of calcium chloride. What are you dosing?

Dosing of certain trace elements may be useful (e.g., vanadium). If you are in to experimenting, I'd try a commercial trace element mix since many of yours are low and none are really high.

Vincenc · Dec 15, 2017

I dose Kalk.
I did dose reef trace yesterday since everything was low.
I am disappointed with my hanna meter being off. Used it for a year like that.
Thank for the help

Randy Holmes-Farley · Dec 16, 2017

I wouldn't assume it is the Hanna that is necessarily off, but it might be.

With dosing limewater, the sulfate is primarily reflecting the chloride to sulfate ratio in the salt mix. I wouldn't worry about it, except that if you dose magnesium, I'd use Epson salt (magnesium sulfate) rather than a ix of magnesium chloride and magnesium sulfate.