ICP Alarming Analysis

[Surferboy1500]

Hi - I received my second ICP analysis and all the metals are extremely high (even many of the elements not highlighted below were way higher than recommended) whereas they were in normal range in March. Any ideas here?

I can't find any equipment rusting or anything obvious like that. I used zeovit but I haven't been dosing anything but zeostart/zeobak. I use zeovit's carbon in a bag. I don't use any other reactors like GFO or anything else. Been having issues with corals unhealthy and dying even though CA/MG/Alk all stable/normal ranges (use Trident). Salinity/temp/pH also stable.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I've rarely seen anything more idiotic than to put the reference values in different units than the measured values. Unbelievable. 1 ppb = 0.001 ppm

Some of the yellow metals are actually low, not high, and I don't see any substantial issue.

 

[Surferboy1500]

Thank you for the quick response. Honestly I’m at a loss for what’s going wrong in this tank. Never had as many corals die in my 10 year experience as this tank and I have more high tech gadgets to track potential issues that aren’t showing anything.

 

[Fish Think Pink]

Thank you for the quick response. Honestly I’m at a loss for what’s going wrong in this tank. Never had as many corals die in my 10 year experience as this tank and I have more high tech gadgets to track potential issues that aren’t showing anything.

What is in your tank? When did it begin to have problems?

Wondering given your experience if perhaps one of your corals has gotten larger (toadstool leather?) and perhaps doing chemical warfare that it didn't to same extent when it was smaller... Not sure how you/we'd test for this, but did recently rehome our toadstool leather and our tank is already showing improvements just 5 days later (had been running charcoal off/on up until rehome, just in case)

 

[Surferboy1500]

What is in your tank? When did it begin to have problems?

Wondering given your experience if perhaps one of your corals has gotten larger (toadstool leather?) and perhaps doing chemical warfare that it didn't to same extent when it was smaller... Not sure how you/we'd test for this, but did recently rehome our toadstool leather and our tank is already showing improvements just 5 days later (had been running charcoal off/on up until rehome, just in case)

Hmmm...I do have an 6-7" toadstool leather in the tank so not super huge (180G). I'm open to dropping it in my biocube to see if it improves.

 

[Fish Think Pink]

Hmmm...I do have an 6-7" toadstool leather in the tank so not super huge (180G). I'm open to dropping it in my biocube to see if it improves.

My toadstool leather was just 4"-5" when began causing us "unexplained" problems

Also 180g here