First ICP test help from fauna Marin

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This is my first ICP test and I wanted to do it just after setting up this tank just to see what baseline I would be getting from using the Red Sea Blue bucket. Kind of a waste but I was curious what would show up.
If anybody could give me some insight on what I should do with this information ,
-since my phosphates are pretty low would a water change make things worse?
- Are the levels that are high even worth worrying about without any corals in the tank?

I'm switching out RO filters and DI today so that should take care of the osmosis portion.

Any help is appreciated , I'll be posting the test results here.
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TBS live sand / W live rock in the sump
Dry rock in the display
114.5 gallons total .
Just under 30 days being set up.
Reefmat roller and skimmer.

Thanks for any input 💪
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Phosphate is not an issue at the level reported. Water change would in theory lower it. Low Ph jumped out at me, I'd want that at 8-8.2.
 
Phosphate is not an issue at the level reported. Water change would in theory lower it. Low Ph jumped out at me, I'd want that at 8-8.2.
Yeah that's something we're confused on also because we just installed a CO2 scrubber but this test was from a week ago and I'm not sure if it had enough time before it boosted those numbers . We do have dogs and multiple people in the house. My other smaller tanks suffer also. But I'll be doing 10% weekly water changes in the meantime
 
Those results look good to me, I would not touch.
I do not monitor PH as it’s hard to get a good read on that and it becomes a number chasing game with no apparent advantages.

Steady as she goes.
 

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