Well, there's this.
https://reefs.com/2015-1/skeptical-reefkeeping-12/
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Well, there's this.
https://reefs.com/2015-1/skeptical-reefkeeping-12/
Triton is testing using the industry standard for water testing, ICP-OES/AES (Inductively coupled plasma optical/atomic emission spectroscopy) combined with high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Personally I would trust an instrument that costs between $10,000-30,000 and is operated by trained people. There is always a possibility of calibration errors and operational issues with any lab operation. If the test is run professionally those errors should be negligible.
I started it out with LOL... it wasn't meant to be serious. my dad works for the world leader in HPLC and UPLC equipment manufacturing. I worked for the company for a long time. i know more about it than alot of folks.. I trust what triton put out. My post was meant in jest, i should have phrased it better.
I guess my tank might be cleaner if i used salt. I just cannot get over adjusting to the mixing part i'm so lazy. But i started using the kz coral system, gonna see how that works with scripps. I just add alk and ca, sometimes mag when i water change.
And for what it's worth, i've never had a mag titration kit i've believed in. Mag is about as loose a number as phosphate. Maybe cause they are both at the limits of the test range, phosphate being low and mag being high.
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I could run a sample of this water on my ICP-OES at work if that would add value to this study. Easy-peezy. At least for Mg and a few other cations.
I'm pretty new to SD and I don't actually know where to get water from Scripps (though I work in La Jolla). Perhaps we could help each other...?
Oh definitely! Welcome to San Diego
Here is exactly where the Scripps water is: https://www.google.com/maps/place/32%C2%B052'11.7%22N+117%C2%B015'03.4%22W/@32.869912,-117.2514862,216m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d32.86991 2!4d-117.250939
It is on the fence there, there is a spigot for all of us to use. It is great!
Nice, I'll try to take care of this in the next week or two. I will update here when I have results.
Hey! I didn't forget about this. The chiller on my ICP went down right before the holidays and I haven't been able to get it fixed yet. I'm expecting a replacement early Feb, so I will run the water samples as soon as I am able to install the new chiller.
Thank you for your patience.
The sodium was a little higher thank the curve, so I might not trust that as much. Also phosphorus was really close to the bottom of the std curve (0.1 to 1000 ppm for all elements) . The water was run in duplicate at 10x and 100x dilutions to try to cover everything. Zn, Mn, Fe, and Cu were not detected.
Other results:
(PPM)
Na 10379*
Mg 1196
Ca 380
K 440
S 886
P 1.22*
Cheers!
Awesome, thx
Wow! Nice man!
For convenience, and since I am doing it out of my own curiosity anyway, I will see how it compares to the triton test.
I am not sure if I am reading the triton test right, I am using the numbers in the "analysis" column, i assume those are the numbers that resulted from their analysis.
Yours/Triton
Na 10379 / 10470
Mg 1196 / 1309
Ca 380 / 414
K 440 / 390
S 886 / 925
P 1.22 / 16.99 (I have no idea, I think I am reading it wrong)