Copper at 25 mg/l in ICP
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Thats what i thought too. Here are my ati icp results. I measure zero copper with salifert. I don't think they are correct either. They have my nitrates at 120 mg/l, I measure at zero with api and about 20 with red sea test kit.
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That copper reading is in ug/l or parts per billion. So yours is .023mg/l
Nitrates do seem very high. But if you have another new and mostly accurate kit to give you a ballpark I'd check that again.
Nitrates do seem very high. But if you have another new and mostly accurate kit to give you a ballpark I'd check that again.
High copper + zinc - you sure you don't have some brass fitting somewhere? On the RO unit maybe?
Any tunze solenoids used?(their brass)
Did the RO test have copper & zinc or just the tank?
Copper will make problems for your sps if too high - it makes them expell their zooxanthellae.
I think it can also nuke bacteria which won't help your no3 coming down any.
Seachem Cuprisorb will pull it out of the tank, somewhat the zinc also.
Any tunze solenoids used?(their brass)
Did the RO test have copper & zinc or just the tank?
Copper will make problems for your sps if too high - it makes them expell their zooxanthellae.
I think it can also nuke bacteria which won't help your no3 coming down any.
Seachem Cuprisorb will pull it out of the tank, somewhat the zinc also.
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Ok I will try the cuprisorb thanks for the tip. The RO results were all good except barium was elevated at around 2.7 And yes I do have a brass connector on one of my reactors, i'll take that straight off. Gonna do their reccommended 3 20% water changes. I am running a bag of carbon too. Thanks for input everyone
The guys at ati test nitrate using ionchromatography. And they reccommended salifert as the most accurate home test kit for nitrate. I have been using red sea. BRS rate red sea nitrate very accurate but hard to read.
The Cu level in OP's system is not harmful. It's almost not even there.
And running activated carbon is a good idea either way, it'll be fine. Definitely do those water changes for No3 though
Be nice to see someone's icp that uses Zeospur that pushes the limit to see what it actually is , i've been 4-5 area before & its ok but that was from brass solenoid leaching. Up 20 area not for this kid.
Watch the Tin also - some people have problems with low levels others can be high before they see problems, other than that nothing i see other than dose some iodine might help things along.
Lanthanum i don't know
Lanthanum i don't know
Yep , for me i wouldn't be comfortable with the zinc + copper or the tin levels.
If you going to follow thru & do the recommended waterchanges & run some cuprisorb it will lower them anyway.
Tins a wild card as to whether the level is a problem or not but should go down with the waterchanges.
The barium often comes with gfo use far as i recall - don't think i ever had it that high but maybe someone else has & can comment.
Aluminium based phos remover(white one) pulls it out i think....
GFO adds barium...AL phos remover adds aluminium....some switch back & forth between the 2 to stop either elevating too high
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