Very high iron and manganese

[Superlightman]

Hello,
I just did an icp test and my mangan and iron levels are very high!
Are these dangerous levels, because even with a big water change they will remain high?.Or can I let them settle down alone?
I suspect that it come from the balling light trace elements as I try the american style method where you double the dose of trace elements ,maybe it was to much?
I stopp it yesterday.
I use also 3 days prior the icp the ez carbon from dsr to reduce the nitrate and phosphates wich contain iron, but i use it just 3 days so I think it could not be this.
I not think that it is rust as mangan went up same time and I changed nothing in the aquarium and no see material problems.
What can I do?

 

[Superlightman]

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I do not think it is dangerous. Red Sea actually recommends dosing to far higher levels of iron, though I do not.

Without dosing it is certainly unusual to see manganese elevated.

Manganese can be in metal parts too. Make sure you have none in the water.

 

[Superlightman]

I do not think it is dangerous. Red Sea actually recommends dosing to far higher levels of iron, though I do not.

Without dosing it is certainly unusual to see manganese elevated.

Manganese can be in metal parts too. Make sure you have none in the water.

Thanks for the advice Randy I checked all my sand I found a screw from the radions in my tank! Don't know how it came here, but it is probably the explanation .two weeks ago I had suddenly brown jelly on the euphyllia and stn on some accropora, I was thinking that it was the new added bio pellets that triggered this but probably it was a heavy metals intoxication.

 

[DrugMonkeyRX]

Hello,
I just did an icp test and my mangan and iron levels are very high!
Are these dangerous levels, because even with a big water change they will remain high?.Or can I let them settle down alone?
I suspect that it come from the balling light trace elements as I try the american style method where you double the dose of trace elements ,maybe it was to much?
I stopp it yesterday.
I use also 3 days prior the icp the ez carbon from dsr to reduce the nitrate and phosphates wich contain iron, but i use it just 3 days so I think it could not be this.
I not think that it is rust as mangan went up same time and I changed nothing in the aquarium and no see material problems.
What ca=

what salt are you using?

 

[Superlightman]

what salt are you using?

Fauna marin and tropic marin synbiotic

 

[Superlightman]

I do not think it is dangerous. Red Sea actually recommends dosing to far higher levels of iron, though I do not.

Without dosing it is certainly unusual to see manganese elevated.

Manganese can be in metal parts too. Make sure you have none in the water.

The iron and iodine I can bring them back with a 60% water change but the manganese not, there is a way to bring it down?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Not sure I'd bother, but it may be able to be dropped with a metal binder such as metasorb or a polyfilter.

 

[Superlightman]

Not sure I'd bother, but it may be able to be dropped with a metal binder such as metasorb or a polyfilter.

OK I will try poly filter thanks!

 

[DrugMonkeyRX]

Fauna marin and tropic marin synbiotic

Send an ICP test of a freshly mixed batch of saltwater just to make sure your salt isnt off.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

OK I will try poly filter thanks!

Just bear in mind that metal binders should not be used willy nilly. They will bind high metals an low metals, and possibly make a deficiency of something else worse.

 

[Superlightman]

Just bear in mind that metal binders should not be used willy nilly. They will bind high metals an low metals, and possibly make a deficiency of something else worse.

Ok I will be carefull but i can make add the deficient metalls after I checked with the icp