Triton Detox Review

[rockskimmerflow]

Just wanted to share my first experience using Detox by Triton. I had bought a bottle a long while ago just in case of emergency and had not had to use it. Well, the other day one of my clients noticed many of her hard corals, montipora, cyphastraea, leptoseris - mostly thin tissued stony corals - began to get burnt and patchy recession around their polyps. They also had lost a lot of color over the course of a few days.

I knew I needed to do something quickly so I ran over and did a 20 percent water change and then added the recommended amount of Detox, shut off her skimmer, and turned off the carbon reactor. She put them back online 3 days later and now 2 weeks on from that, all the corals are rebounding vigorously.

Found a chrome fitting that had been installed after the DI stage on her new RO system she had put in. I usually use BRS RODI units, but some water service had talked her into a different (more expensive I'm sure brand) and then proceeded to allow a chrome fitting to be placed in the pure product water line. I cannot say for certain that is the smoking gun, but the issues with her corals cropped up about 3 weeks after she'd been using the new RO system to top off her reef tank. We will see how things go now that I've substituted a plastic fitting for the chrome one. So far so good the last couple weeks.

Whatever the toxicity was coming from, Detox did it's job and I'm very thankful I had that tool in my arsenal.

 

[BobNY]

Thanks for posting your review. I am adding Detox to my tank tonight. My ICP test showed a small level of copper.

 

[Tim2@Triton]

@rockskimmerflow Likely brass/bronze fitting that was chrome plated. Both bronze and brass are copper based.

 

[rockskimmerflow]

@rockskimmerflow Likely brass/bronze fitting that was chrome plated. Both bronze and brass are copper based.

Yeah, my suspicion was copper as well. I've seen the same symptoms in the past in tanks that were previously FOWLR but converted to reef and could only sustain soft corals. Always assumed it was copper leaching from the live rock due to a prior medication added to the tank preventing hard coral survival. I've used Metasorb or cuprisorb in the past in those cases with good results, but I'll be using Detox from now on after seeing how effective it was - not to mention how convenient it was to use.

 

[SneakyTortuga]

@rockskimmerflow Likely brass/bronze fitting that was chrome plated. Both bronze and brass are copper based.

Would detox work for a contamination aluminum or tin?

 

[Tim2@Triton]

@SneakyTortuga To my knowledge, no. That is why when aluminum or tin show up in a significant way on an ICP result, a series of water changes is called for

 

[tastyfish]

As per Tim's reply, Water changes for Tin, although many are experiencing success with metasorb, polyfilter etc (they will deplete levels of other elements).

For aluminium, if you run Rowaphos for PO4 removal, it will also remove aluminium.

 

[SneakyTortuga]

As per Tim's reply, Water changes for Tin, although many are experiencing success with metasorb, polyfilter etc (they will deplete levels of other elements).

For aluminium, if you run Rowaphos for PO4 removal, it will also remove aluminium.

I tried a poly filter and some cuprisorb along with water changes. I’m waiting on a icp test to see if it’s still in the tank.

I found a rust nail in the tank which I think may have been the culprit

 

[BobNY]

Added my dose of Detox a few days ago and put carbon back online yesterday. We will see if it worked when I send in my next ICP test.

I have a question about when to do a water change. The guide says to change out the carbon after 7 days. Should I wait the 7 days before doing a water change, or can I do one right away. It was recommended that I do 6 weekly water changes of 15%. I would like to get that started ASAP :).

 

[Scott.h]

Any idea what would be a predominate source of tin?

 

[SneakyTortuga]

Any idea what would be a predominate source of tin?

I had a rusty nail in my sump and then I found a rusty screw on my rodi container float valve (it was a adjustable float switch). I sent another test in so I’m waiting to see if that was it

 

[daelie]

I used detox and panta rhei’s panta lith after I removed the only likely source of tin I had left (jebao return pump) and my tin dropped from 30 to 0 so I assume one or both of them possibly remove tin.

My tin progressed higher and higher over 3 tests until at 30 ppb I figured I would replace the last piece of cheap equipment I had.

I saw a pretty quick rebound of my acropora as well within a week or two. A red planet that was literally brown and dry looking for a year started getting color back and growth on other acros that was previously stalled finally has restarted.

 

[Scott.h]

This particular system is a pretty new system, with new ecotech pumps. New tropic Marin salt and my fuge and aquarium have lids. No sand so finding screws or something would be easy. I'm wondering if it has anything to do with fish food, nori, coral food, or liquid phosphate. If is was leaching off rocks it should have started to show up months ago I would think. The only other culprit may be drywall dust, as I finished off my basement around the tank already set up and running. Other then triton elements nothing else goes in the tank, and my rodi is overkill compared to my incoming water.

 

[Rajil]

Just wanted to share my first experience using Detox by Triton. I had bought a bottle a long while ago just in case of emergency and had not had to use it. Well, the other day one of my clients noticed many of her hard corals, montipora, cyphastraea, leptoseris - mostly thin tissued stony corals - began to get burnt and patchy recession around their polyps. They also had lost a lot of color over the course of a few days.
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This is kind of nuts, but I'm having the same issue with the same corals that you just listed. Going to give detox a try.

 

[Klaus DK]

Any idea what would be a predominate source of tin?

I had some rusty fittings on my water tap suppling my RODI system.