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ICP results, thoughts?

Probably get your salinity up and that would take care of a lot of things. Calcium is high and will go higher if you raise the salinity. What are you dosing for Calcium?

Lithium is "high", @derek_SR tank has lithium in the ~500 range and it's doing just fine.

Iodine looks low, you could look into dosing that if you want.

I'd check your RODI system, ideally you want n.d. for all of those elements.
 
The ICP has to be read from top to bottom and addressed accordingly. There are quite a few things to look into, @dangalang touched on some of them. Text me if you want.

@derek_SR gets one point for spotting salinity. He missed that the sample was (at least) two weeks in transit - although nothing wrong with opening the window. It will just not help with this ICP :).
 
Alexander1312 said:
The ICP has to be read from top to bottom and addressed accordingly. There are quite a few things to look into, @dangalang touched on some of them. Text me if you want.

@derek_SR gets one point for spotting salinity. He missed that the sample was (at least) two weeks in transit - although nothing wrong with opening the window. It will just not help with this ICP :).
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Yes my response was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Why test for PH at all, especially for a sample that spends so much time in transit?

Better question, why even use a testing service that takes 2 weeks to get results in the first place (and doesn't supply a shipping label)? :)
 
derek_SR said:
Yes my response was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Why test for PH at all, especially for a sample that spends so much time in transit?

Better question, why even use a testing service that takes 2 weeks to get results in the first place (and doesn't supply a shipping label)? :)
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Which ICP do you like to use?
 
derek_SR said:
Yes my response was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Why test for PH at all, especially for a sample that spends so much time in transit?

Better question, why even use a testing service that takes 2 weeks to get results in the first place (and doesn't supply a shipping label)? :)
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Need to think bigger. Their lab is testing 600-800 samples daily. Most are around 5 days, within Germany, it seems to be 1-2 days on average, folks with normal shipping time like that they test it (not me, I am depressed when I see these values).

One of my journal updates a few days ago discusses the long shipping times - and how to resolve them - and that their tests now supply a prepaid shipping label (they had a shipping label in their box for some time, just not prepaid).

I agree that two weeks is too long, so this needs to come down. I had several tests in 8 days. Claude thinks it can be done in 5-6 days, but I think this will need to be seen. I will test this out shortly. Most likely shipping to Louisiana on Monday morning. I am not a fan of Triton, and a lot of this is based on how much you trust the company you are working with to give you the most reliable results.
 
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Alexander1312 said:
Need to think bigger. Their lab is testing 600-800 samples daily. Most are around 5 days, within Germany, it seems to be 1-2 days on average, folks with normal shipping time like that they test it (not me, I am depressed when I see these values).

One of my journal updates a few days ago discusses the long shipping times - and how to resolve them - and that their tests now supply a prepaid shipping label (they had a shipping label in their box for some time, just not prepaid).

I agree that two weeks is too long, so this needs to come down. I had several tests in 8 days. Claude thinks it can be done in 5-6 days, but I think this will need to be seen. I will test this out shortly. Most likely shipping to Louisiana on Monday morning. I am not a fan of Triton, and a lot of this is based on how much you trust the company you are working with to give you the most reliable results.
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I’ve got an FM ICP sitting around you can have. I think I won it in the photo contest. You gotta send me a prepaid label to ship it to you, though!

gmdcdvm said:
Which ICP do you like to use?
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Triton - takes 4 days usually. I’ve got no reason not to trust the results, at least as far as any ICP can really be “trusted.” They are consistent and predictable enough based on my inputs - I got a lanthanum result after overdosing lanthanum, and see traces go up or down roughly based on my actions, for example. Good enough for me!

I could not care less about the ranges or recommendations of any company selling things, Triton or FM, so that aspect is irrelevant for me. If you worship at the church of Claude you may prefer FM’s recommendations though, etc
 
derek_SR said:
I’ve got an FM ICP sitting around you can have. I think I won it in the photo contest. You gotta send me a prepaid label to ship it to you, though!

That is funny.

Triton - takes 4 days usually. I’ve got no reason not to trust the results, at least as far as any ICP can really be “trusted.” They are consistent and predictable enough based on my inputs - I got a lanthanum result after overdosing lanthanum, and see traces go up or down roughly based on my actions, for example. Good enough for me!

It tells you what you what you want to hear. Everything is green. That worries me.

I could not care less about the ranges or recommendations of any company selling things, Triton or FM, so that aspect is irrelevant for me. If you worship at the church of Claude you may prefer FM’s recommendations though, etc
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If you did you would not use cheatogrow aka reef fertilizer. Everyone worships their reef church. You do it too.
 
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