Tropic Marin ICP Water Analysis
Tropic Marin ICP Water Analysis is professional inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) testing for reef aquariums, mailed in by you and processed at a certified laboratory. A single water sample comes back with quantitative results for 30+ elements — major parameters like calcium, magnesium, alkalinity, potassium, and sodium alongside trace elements and potential contaminants at parts-per-billion accuracy. This is the most accurate reef water testing available outside a certified research laboratory and it's particularly valuable for diagnosing coral health issues that standard hobby test kits can't identify, catching contamination from equipment or additives, and verifying that your trace element supplementation is actually hitting target levels rather than guessing.
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