Icp high iron phosphate and iodine help

[fishkeeprian]

Hello had my icp back and I have iron and idione. Not sure where the iodine is coming from as I dont dose anything and just rely on water changes which is Tropic Marin Pro salt.

The iron I have checked for crosion and nothing visible.

My zoas are bleaching and shrinking and dissolving. Maybe something to do with one of these?

Its on a little 60 litre tank all in one with no skimmer

I have attached the results.

Thanks

 

[griss]

Maybe try Chemi-clean?

 

[wvned]

What type of water are you using?
The only one that looks truly awful is Phosphorus. Could be from food or source water. The others probably arent a problem. In any case water changes diluting the amounts is the traditional solution. I dose Iodine and Iron and often have levels in the red on an ICP.
Zoas bleaching and dissolving could be too much light. Corals react pretty much the same way to any tank condition they dont like.

 

[Uncle99]

Hello had my icp back and I have iron and idione. Not sure where the iodine is coming from as I dont dose anything and just rely on water changes which is Tropic Marin Pro salt.

The iron I have checked for crosion and nothing visible.

My zoas are bleaching and shrinking and dissolving. Maybe something to do with one of these?

Its on a little 60 litre tank all in one with no skimmer

I have attached the results.

Thanks

The iron is fine at that level, it “may” be higher a tad, but the iodine is high IMM.

Run a fresh GAC for a week and 2-3 25% water changes to bring it down.

Is that the cause of your melting ZOA, likely not, but no need to run iodine beyond 0.06ppm.

Some believe this level may benefit the system, yet, no proof of that.

ICP tests should be read and understood, but use caution, they are not as accurate as you might expect in some cases. Nor does the levels they set, represent the “best” level in all cases.

Who knows on the testing end what equipment is actually used and what their process is.

 

[wvned]

There is little proof for most things in aquariums. Just personal experience. My inverts started doing much better once I dosed Iodine.
I had several test cases for many years. Shrimps started living many years instead of many months. The large crabs too. If you dont keep larger inverts I suspect there is no need to add it. I stopped having molt failures. That is exactly what it is supposed to help with. It's not magic. Just another little piece of the puzzle.

Any time I see red on an ICP I go reading about if it actually means anything harmful and often it doesn't. The red just indicates how far you are from the "perfect" range.

Large sunken ships turn into reefs and are covered in life on the ocean bottom. Do you think that life is exposed to high iron levels as the hulk rots down?

A good source for knowledge Reef Chemistry Archives - REEFEDITION
Reefs.com
Look for articles by Randy Holmes Farley. I dont always agree with him but an excellent person to learn from. His stuff is posted in various places on the net.

GAC is granular activated carbon. Get a good kind and dont tumble it in a reactor. That makes dust and is suspected to cause a particular type of disease in some fish called head and lateral line erosion.