1 year ICP results ALL FOR REEF

[rishma]

All for reef doesn’t have enough to replace all the trace. per my ICP the only thing in isol8 mt that’s high is zinc but I’ll let it ride we’ll see in a month how much it goes up.

Your trace honestly looked good to me. What are you focused on improving with Isol8?

 

[805reeftank]

Your trace honestly look good. What are you focused on improving with Isol8?

Isol8 mt is supposed to be the daily’s that get consumed the quickest and it’s all in 1. I don’t want to do moonshiners or manually dose. If you look at the ICP some of these aren’t detectable and some can still be optimized so I figure it’s 18bucks lets see what happens. As far as what I’m chasing? It’s color. my colors are ok I just want to see what I can get them too. And honestly that thing that might have the biggest effect is correcting the salinity. But I already started the MT before I got my results back so I won’t be able to pin point what does it of they do improve. I guess I could stop MT if things look better and rule it out that way. We’ll see.

• Iodide
• Molybdenum
• Nickel
• Zinc
• Manganese
• Copper
• Selenium
• Vanadium
• Iron
• Cobalt

 

[rishma]

Isol8 mt is supposed to be the daily’s that get consumed the quickest and it’s all in 1. If you look at the ICP some of these aren’t detectable and some can still be optimized so I figure it’s 18bucks lets see what happens.

• Iodide
• Molybdenum
• Nickel
• Zinc
• Manganese
• Copper
• Selenium
• Vanadium
• Iron
• Cobalt

Cool. Let us know how it goes. I am interested in your observations. My only trace is from AFR. I tend to be low on Mn and was thinking about dosing it.

I think some of those not detectable elements have levels in NSW that ICP-OES would read as not detectable. I am not sure what the ideal value ATI shows is based on. I’m not knocking it, it could be good.

I was thinking sometime this year I’d do an ICP-MS. I like the Isol8 approach and would consider it.

 

[805reeftank]

Cool. Let us know how it goes. I am interested in your observations. My only trace is from AFR. I tend to be low on Mn and was thinking about dosing it.

I think some of those not detectable elements have levels in NSW that ICP-OES would read as not detectable. I am not sure what the ideal value ATI shows is based on. I’m not knocking it, it could be good.

I was thinking sometime this year I’d do an ICP-MS. I like the Isol8 approach and would consider it.

As long as it’s not elevated to a concerning level or it’s just detectable I’m good with it. One of the main reasons I decided to try it is it can be diluted in RO water and dosed with a single pump. All the elements in MT are widely believed to be beneficial so why not.

 

[allenk4]

Isol8 mt is supposed to be the daily’s that get consumed the quickest and it’s all in 1. I don’t want to do moonshiners or manually dose. If you look at the ICP some of these aren’t detectable and some can still be optimized so I figure it’s 18bucks lets see what happens. As far as what I’m chasing? It’s color. my colors are ok I just want to see what I can get them too. And honestly that thing that might have the biggest effect is correcting the salinity. But I already started the MT before I got my results back so I won’t be able to pin point what does it of they do improve. I guess I could stop MT if things look better and rule it out that way. We’ll see.

• Iodide
• Molybdenum
• Nickel
• Zinc
• Manganese
• Copper
• Selenium
• Vanadium
• Iron
• Cobalt

From what I have read, a standard ICP Test may not even be actually testing for some of these trace elements like Iron, but are extrapolating data for other elements found in the sample to come up with the Fe number.

This is from an article on Reef Builders:

“The majority of ICP tests are OES (Optical Emission spectroscopy), at ICP Analysis we use MS (Mass spectrometry.) MS measures the mass of atoms whereas OES measures the wavelengths of the atoms and ions.MS and OES are different machines with different testing methods. MS can go down into the parts per trillion (ppt). OES can go to parts per billion (ppb).”

Regarding your issue with excess Zinc: A video I watched recently discussed that if there is no mechanism for removal of a trace element it can accumulate from continual addition of RODI to replace evaporation. If there is more Zinc entering the system than the fish and corals are using, it will accumulate. Unfortunately, if the issue is your RODI…a 50% water change wouldn’t remove 50% of the Zinc.

Interesting situation.

 

[rishma]

As long as it’s not elevated to a concerning level or it’s just detectable I’m good with it. One of the main reasons I decided to try it is it can be diluted in RO water and dosed with a single pump. All the elements in MT are widely believed to be beneficial so why not.

I follow the logic. And I like to tinker.