Hey Randy, I just received my Triton test results and I have high aluminum. Whats the suggested way to lower? I am using Detox from Triton but, I was wondering if there is anything else available for lowering it?
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Well, not yet. From what I understand though is that it can. I run a mainly sps tank and I have already endured 1 total crash and, I need to prevent any others.Is it causing a problem?
Well, not yet. From what I understand though is that it can. I run a mainly sps tank and I have already endured 1 total crash and, I need to prevent any others.
I do about 40g every 2 weeks. I have a few leathers and they seem fine now. I'm more concerned with my sps. I might run some gfo if it can remove the Al.
Leathers seem more susceptible than SPS.
how many different tests did you run over how long of time period?Agree. My fiji leather did not look fully healthy until my Al rates went down. The fiji leathet was very disturbed apon initial introduction of some ceramic media and did not look great or increased its size while Al levels peaked. Seems like everything else including SPS, LPS, mushrooms, and BTA in my system were ok.
I have numbers now but waiting on one more set of results to come back to actually post those numbers.
How my levels were lowered is not exactly known. I harvest algae, skim dry but lots of it, did not run GAC during that time, did 1% daily water changes, and towards the end the last few months added GFO.
I am running an experiment on GFOs capabilities of removing Al. Hopefully the kind that leaches from these ceramic media.
Any update on this? Did you remove the marine pure and retest after water changes?
That's a pretty high level, IMO, but maybe not a problem. At twice that I saw substantial effects on corals (like leathers and mushrooms), but at 1/2 that I did not. Aluminum can be a tricky thing to remove. The Triton folks have suggested GFO.
Do you do regular water changes?
Randy,
Where do you think you got the high levels from?