Advice? Labratory/Trace Elements water testing

Triton testing. I do 3 tests a year. Get them from Unique Corals.

I test regularly for, alkalinity, calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphate, and nitrate.
And salinity.

 

I do Triton as well. I had done Aquamedic AWT previously and really prefer the parameters covered by Triton. Aquamedic includes more parameters you can easily test for.

 

I was doing Triton every now and then, but I really don't anymore. I just do 50% water changes every week. Sometimes it's more.. Hard to deviate from your salt mix then..

It is worthwhile though imo every now and again just to know if there's any unwanted material/compound getting into the water.
As to which compounds are "necessary" you may as well just ask on the internet, "does anyone believe in God?"..
I'm a full believer that any and all parameters should match the ocean and just because we haven't seen one compound to be of importance, don't leave it out. (thus tons of water changes)

 

How soon are you guys getting your results from triton. I sent a sample months ago.

 

Yikes, I got my results back in a couple of weeks. 3 weeks tops. Have you received any emails saying that it was received in California and sent to Germany or received in Germany?

 

If I had a small to normal sized system I'd probably follow this approach as well. However, 50% WCs each week gets expensive pretty fast on a large system (I'd be spending about $4500 per year on salt). It's certainly more complicated to try to dose elements to keep everything as close to NSW as possible, but definitely more affordable on large systems. Ultimately we have the same end goal though.

 

I haven't received anything, and of course I didn't save my ups tracking when I sent it.