Triton Test Results

[hedgedrew]

so all the tropic marin salts also had ridiculous mn also according to triton about 40x nsw i wonder if triton stops testing for me lol that they used to recommend this salt all other params were fine but this tested same way as red sea so i ask do we want double the amount of lithium or 40x the magenese i know which one i would take

 

[swk]

Triton Test Results

so all the tropic marin salts also had ridiculous mn also according to triton about 40x nsw i wonder if triton stops testing for me lol that they used to recommend this salt all other params were fine but this tested same way as red sea so i ask do we want double the amount of lithium or 40x the magenese i know which one i would take

I wonder if it's the same salt?

Oh, and I know which one I would want as well....

 

[acesq]

so all the tropic marin salts also had ridiculous mn also according to triton about 40x nsw i wonder if triton stops testing for me lol that they used to recommend this salt all other params were fine but this tested same way as red sea so i ask do we want double the amount of lithium or 40x the magenese i know which one i would take

Drew, all of the Tropic Marin samples you sent tested that high in mangenese? Hmmm. Not sure what to think at this point. I switched from ESV to TMPR a couple of months ago because of the high lithium!

To add to all of this confusion take a look at the new article Thales wrote about the Triton test. Triton tested the manganese at 396% of the actual known level in the sample.

Too many questions, not enough answers!

 

[Bilk]

Posting my results here as well for comparison. Tank was started on RSCPro but that was only startup. I didn't like the salt so switched to ESV which I had used before. Essentially the tank has run on ESV for a year when this test was performed.

I recently switched to TM Blue Bucket because of the high Li and Br. I also didn't like that ESV tested positive for PO4 when freshly mixed. I discussed this with Bob and he claimed it was normal and inconsequential. Maybe so, but I didn't want that in my salt mix. I'm going to let the tank run on TM for a few months as I have quite a few hundred gallons of mix to use, and then test again.


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[hedgedrew]

your lithium levels and br levels are consistent with the bad batches his new formulation post date dec 22 are significantly lower plus you should test the salt mixed with ro not from tank too many other variables like 2 part that is interesting mn info by thales still some salts are testing higher than others

 

[alexander_ktn]

Rich Ross and Chris Maupin did a test of Triton with a high standard seawater reference solution, published here recently: http://www.reefsmagazine.com/mag.php?do=wp_post&articleId=159

Worth a read in my opinion.

 

[Bilk]

your lithium levels and br levels are consistent with the bad batches his new formulation post date dec 22 are significantly lower plus you should test the salt mixed with ro not from tank too many other variables like 2 part that is interesting mn info by thales still some salts are testing higher than others

I agree that the salt should be tested freshly mixed if one suspects there's an issue with the salt. That wasn't the reason I sent the water out for testing. I never had any suspicions about the salt. Always liked it. Just wanted to see if my system was accumulating any heavy metals and what other parameters were that I cannot measure. I had also used another service and wanted to compare the results. Wasn't very happy with that service. They were non-comunicative when I asked some questions regarding the test. Needless to say I won't be using them again.