i did a fairly thorough inspection/cleaning of stuff yesterday. return pump and both octopulse pumps looked totally fine, no issues near magnets or impellers. checked the heater too, it's only a few months old so not surprising no issues
still some more equipment to check, but idk..
i also got the tropic marin salt and mixed that up to 1.026 and just checked copper level and it was 0.12, so it seems there's just some low level of copper in seawater
despite running cuprisorb and metabsorb the last week plus, i tested my dt and it still has 0.08 copper. i worry a bit about stripping all of these trace elements, so i think i'll take that offline and do a water change or two and then send in another icp test
i also dug in a bit on the triton test as apparently there's a help tab giving me info on bad stuff
Due to excessively high P/PO4 readings it has not been possible to accuratly test for Iodine
Lower P/PO4 value by using AL99 or ROWAphos phospate remover, then retest.
so the high iodine level is a question mark at best
Your Iron levels are too high.
Check for possible contamination source. To help you in finding the source of error, we have listed them the most common sources of iron (sorted in descending order of frequency):
1. Trace element overdose / contamination
2. Metals near or in the aquarium (as rusty clamps or screws)
3. Iron based Phosphate remover (too much flow in reactor)
4. Low pH in the aquarium
so iron i was dosing hoping to cause algae growth to outcompete dinos, unfortunate timing as i can't tell if i have an iron problem, overdosed it myself, or it's a combination of the two
Your Zinc levels are too high.
Check for possible contamination source. To assist you in finding the source of error, we have listed the most common sources of zinc (sorted in descending order of frequency):
1. Contaminated trace elements
2. Hand Cream applied before working in the aquarium
3. Contaminated salts
so zinc apparently isn't even a result of a bad magnet or something of that sort. maybe i have some bad trace elements? i really don't dose trace elements often as they seem to cause dinocyano ime, but i can't say i never dose them..
Your Lithium levels are too high.
Check for possible contamination source. To help you in your search for the source of error, we have listed them the most common lithium sources (sorted in descending order of frequency):
1. Trace element overdose / contamination
2. Contaminated salts / contaminated magnesium salts
3. Artificial Rock/ Reef ceramics
4. Food
i've heard IO salt just has a higher than normal lithium level, but again rusting magnet not a cause of this apparently
so.. idk. i'm gonna keep trying to look for a rusting magnet/impeller source, give the TM salt a whirl for a bit, and not dose any trace elements and see where i'm at i guess. and keep hands out of the water, although i'm always hesitant to put hands in the water and i definitely don't do it after putting on hand lotions or anything of that sort
one thing i thought about is i added a bunch of fiji rock a few months back and it was from a tank breakdown of some local guy. he had it sitting outside, so i gave it a bleach bath and thorough rinse/dry before ever using it, but if rocks can leech copper i wonder if that could be it? that'd be really not ideal, but i also really doubt that being the issue