Hi everyone,
I'm in the midst of getting a Reefer 425 up and running. It's been wet for 5 weeks or so and now cycled. No fish nor corals at this point - still an empty tank.
I decided to run an ICP test on the tank as a sort of baseline and was expecting a very boring report to come back. Instead I have some seemingly alarming results that I would really appreciate the community's input on. Specifically, I'm worried about:
Based on the suggestions provided by Triton, the first three seem likely to be caused by either contaminated salt and/or some sort of metal corrosion. Does that sound right? Any ideas on why the silicon is so high? Triton suggests RO/DI water (def not) and then a variety of media, none of which are in the tank.
My questions for the group:
I'm in the midst of getting a Reefer 425 up and running. It's been wet for 5 weeks or so and now cycled. No fish nor corals at this point - still an empty tank.
I decided to run an ICP test on the tank as a sort of baseline and was expecting a very boring report to come back. Instead I have some seemingly alarming results that I would really appreciate the community's input on. Specifically, I'm worried about:
- Manganese: 54 ug/l (ref 0 - 3 ug/l)
- Chromium: 3 ug/l (ref 0 ug/l)
- Iron: 18 ug/l (ref 0 ug/l)
- Silicon: 519 ug/l (0 - 200 ug/l)
Based on the suggestions provided by Triton, the first three seem likely to be caused by either contaminated salt and/or some sort of metal corrosion. Does that sound right? Any ideas on why the silicon is so high? Triton suggests RO/DI water (def not) and then a variety of media, none of which are in the tank.
My questions for the group:
- How alarming are these results? I assume I need to action them but do want to validate that.
- Recommendations on what to do?
- Is this problematic enough to warrant draining the tank and refilling with different salt?
- Recommendations on what to do?
- Ideas on source? The only metal items in the tank are a heater (brand new), a Vectra pump (not new but I cleaned it thoroughly and didn't see any signs of rust), and the pump in my skimmer, which I've admittedly not checked. I do have some stainless steel hose clamps on the return hose but none of them is submerged.
- Could this be the salt? I know Tropic Marin had issues a ways back but I thought those were resolved?