I received my water test results

[vanbro1]

I posted a few weeks ago regarding my ATO water mate being off since I was losing some coral and a random cyano outbreak. Someone suggested I have the water tested, so I did through ATI, I just received the results back today. How does one rid themselves of lithium?

 

[vanbro1]

 

[vanbro1]

 

[vanbro1]

http://reefcentral.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=11864&pictureid=80208

 

[vanbro1]

 

[five.five-six]

I don't see anything horrifying, bring up the calcium ~25ppm

http://reef.diesyst.com/chemcalc/chemcalc.html

 

[vanbro1]

yeah the calcium was back to normal at 450. Do you see how high lithium is?

 

[m0nkie]

high lithium is normal. mine has it too

 

[vanbro1]

I have seen a few threads that lithium fuels cyano. I had a a weird outbreak but thought maybe I just stirred some sand. A couple months have gone by and it still is an issue. That would for sure be the longest I have seen cyano in my tank.

Any experience with that? They also recommend that I start adding phosphorous, hesitant to do that

 

[bowlopho]

Chemiclean

 

[denash24]

Which salt brand are you using and for how long?

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Randy says that high Li in the tank isn't a concern, and a possible way it was introduced is by low grade magnesium supplements.

 

[vanbro1]

I just use IO since I dose. I have been using it for a very long time, few years at least. I was using tropic pro but that was prior to dosing. I went a long time with doing minimal water changes. When the temp dropped I was burning through RODI so I thought maybe that had something to do with it, that test came back with no issues.

I think the main issue might be my nitrate I lost a few big fish that were keeping it close to the 2-3 range. Now looking at this I may need to bump up the fish count.

Anyone have experience adding phosphorous? I don't want to start adding a bunch of chemicals if I don't have too.