Well a couple days ago I received the results of a couple tests that I sent to Triton. Not my tank water, But other possible sources of contamination.
A little background: My 1rst and only triton test of my tank water, revealed high copper, zinc, and iodine. The iodine result was suspected, but not the others. This was in the midst of a tank crash. I lost almost all my acros (over 40 species) and euphyllia, and acans over about a month or so, maybe 2 months.
Long story short, Both sources I checked were contributing to my problem. The first source is my ro/di. I haven't changed any of the filters in quite some time. I have a tds meter on it, which says 93 tds from my well and 1 tds on the out line. I really did not think that 1 tds on a tds meter was that big of a deal, but apparently it is. So needless to say all the water changes I thought I was helping, I was only hurting.
The second source, I keep live black worms in my garage in an established trough sort of system with bio-balls. If you know about black worms, you know they are dirty and spike ammonia fast if your not keeping them refrigerated and changing water daily. Well I keep them in a system with a sump where I can keep a large amount, since I feed them daily. It works rather well. The problem is that I was using tap water with no filtration at all, to keep the black worms. Never really thought about the worms, or small bit of water that might get into my tank when I feed them, as a source of contaminates. Well lesson learned. It was an expensive lesson.
So here are the Triton results of my fresh made ro/di water, as it is mixed with red sea to 1.026
And here are the results from my live black worm water...
A little background: My 1rst and only triton test of my tank water, revealed high copper, zinc, and iodine. The iodine result was suspected, but not the others. This was in the midst of a tank crash. I lost almost all my acros (over 40 species) and euphyllia, and acans over about a month or so, maybe 2 months.
Long story short, Both sources I checked were contributing to my problem. The first source is my ro/di. I haven't changed any of the filters in quite some time. I have a tds meter on it, which says 93 tds from my well and 1 tds on the out line. I really did not think that 1 tds on a tds meter was that big of a deal, but apparently it is. So needless to say all the water changes I thought I was helping, I was only hurting.
The second source, I keep live black worms in my garage in an established trough sort of system with bio-balls. If you know about black worms, you know they are dirty and spike ammonia fast if your not keeping them refrigerated and changing water daily. Well I keep them in a system with a sump where I can keep a large amount, since I feed them daily. It works rather well. The problem is that I was using tap water with no filtration at all, to keep the black worms. Never really thought about the worms, or small bit of water that might get into my tank when I feed them, as a source of contaminates. Well lesson learned. It was an expensive lesson.
So here are the Triton results of my fresh made ro/di water, as it is mixed with red sea to 1.026
And here are the results from my live black worm water...
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