i ended up adding a piece of my bubblegum digi to my tank last week as well as my sunfire grafted cap, and they started to bleach within a couple of days. I also started to notice my acros losing tissue on their tips within a couple of days after that. I immediately tested everything and my phosphate came up 0 and my nitrate came up 5. I doubled my feeding and started dosing aminos again to try and increase phosphate thinking it was due to low nutrients. This didn't seem to help at all so I sent in an Triton ICP and an N-DOC in to be sure that I wasn't missing something (the N-DOC hasn't come back yet) and I just now got my results. I also stopped the extra feeding and the aminos due to thinking it possibly could be doing more harm than good if there is some underlying issue. I'm not exactly sure what's wrong as nothing seems out of the ordinary to my eye. I did read that high barium is nothing to worry about. Maybe someone can help break this down for me and help me get my tank back in order. I'll link the ICP. Thanks
Alk is currently 7.11
Calcium is currently 469
Magnesium is 1374
Salinity is 35.8
PH is 8.35
Nitrate is 5
Phosphate is 0 according to hanna checker (not the ULR), however the ICP seems to read some.
Alk is currently 7.11
Calcium is currently 469
Magnesium is 1374
Salinity is 35.8
PH is 8.35
Nitrate is 5
Phosphate is 0 according to hanna checker (not the ULR), however the ICP seems to read some.
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