scaramanga
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That seems like a long time. I sent the same exact test out on Tuesday. Thought I’d have something by now. I’ll let you know when mine hits
Fiji cube 48g EXT
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I usually do ATI and only has one test sample list, which they sent a replacement code, but I’ve had a few take 10+ days before. I haven’t done ATI in a long time, the last time the address was here in SoCal. I always sent them in on Wednesday morning and usually got the results the following Tuesday, as they sent out to Germany every Tuesday and Friday.
Yeah I used the provided shipping label, guess I should have done a little research. I’ll give them a call sometime this week to see the status but I do feel like it’s taking quite some time to get results.
When they lost my samples, I had to provide my own tubes, which you can find on Amazon. It was a PITA, but at least I didn’t have to pay for another sample. I’ve since moved to Fauna Marin, mainly because I got a free free samples.
Well. After 21 days of actually sending it out I finally got results. Didn’t look bad but I’ve been low on fluorine the last 3 tests, finally biting the bullet and purchasing a supplement for it.
Getting some bubble algae growth from keeping po4 .15- .2. Going to drop it down closer to .1 and see if it helps. Spent some time manually removing a few clusters by siphoning as much as I could before it gets out of hand. I’ve actually never had bubble algae for the last 5 years.
Lithium seems to be more elevated than I want to but last test was with triton so it’s hard to say for sure.
Glad to see my RO water is good though.
Tank scored a 70/100, C- grade for the tank lol
Getting some bubble algae growth from keeping po4 .15- .2. Going to drop it down closer to .1 and see if it helps. Spent some time manually removing a few clusters by siphoning as much as I could before it gets out of hand. I’ve actually never had bubble algae for the last 5 years.
Lithium seems to be more elevated than I want to but last test was with triton so it’s hard to say for sure.
Glad to see my RO water is good though.
Tank scored a 70/100, C- grade for the tank lol
scaramanga
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Oh man. 21 Days.... I'm guessing I'll be on the same trajectory for timing. Still says they haven't received mine which was sent 8/18. It looks like a lot of values are blank. Is this normal?
Since these ICP labs are in Europe, I'm guessing they are all just coming back from or in the midst of their summer holidays. This is very typical in Europe. So they probably have a large backorder of test samples to get to.
Your ICP looks good. Better than mine for sure.
Your ICP looks good. Better than mine for sure.
I think if you sent to the PA location it’s ran by a different company (nyos). So if you sent to CA maybe it should be quicker?
I’m assuming the blanks are non-detectable. The results with many blanks are results from my RO water.
Not a whole lot of fluorine/fluoride available as supplements so I went and ordered Aquaforest brand. And upon browsing their products I found polyp up. Supposed to have iron, iodine, and manganese in it. Hoping to knock out 3 birds in one stone with that one.
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Just make your own fluoride trace using loudwolf sodium fluoride. Mix 2.210 grams into 1L of RO and you have your solution. But, be very careful with sodium fluoride, wear PPE when handling it. Then use the reef moonshiners calculator (free download) to dose the necessary amount. Use a scale that can measure 1/100 and you'll be good.
scaramanga
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It went to the PA location. Actually got it back over the weekend.
Maybe your theory of Europe being on summer break is correct. Or maybe my email actually pushed them to look for what may have been a lost package. I had gotten reply to reach back out at the end of the week if it wasn’t resulted.
Glad it got sorted out. And gave me some insight on what I needed to improve. So will probably send another one out in a few months after dosing fluorine and polyp up.
Bummed about missing RAP this year. So bidded on a few auctions from TCK. I do love me some yellow acros and watermelon chalices
TCK pink rainbow chalice
TCK pikachu
And WWC afterparty
Was hoping to score a JF jolt but bids were getting too high for my liking.
I’ll snap some real photos in a couple of weeks to see if they survive. Went through Bayer dip and saw’d off the plugs, they’re not happy. Only way for me to do my best to eliminate aptasia, blue polyps and red turf.
These showed up shortly after the corals so let’s see if it helps.
TCK pink rainbow chalice
TCK pikachu
And WWC afterparty
Was hoping to score a JF jolt but bids were getting too high for my liking.
I’ll snap some real photos in a couple of weeks to see if they survive. Went through Bayer dip and saw’d off the plugs, they’re not happy. Only way for me to do my best to eliminate aptasia, blue polyps and red turf.
These showed up shortly after the corals so let’s see if it helps.
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