Just our of curiosity, what color is the trace mix you use? eg. Seachem Flourish, CSM, or the trace mix powder after dissolving in water from hydrophonic store, etc.
I was just making a small batch of trace myself and noticed the pH was like 2 or something and had yellow color. Then I adjusted the pH to around 7 (ok i know it's really not that important ), and the color turned dark green and got very heavy (iron?) precipitation. Then making the pH back up to acidic made the stuffs redissolve and yellow again. Then when I went back home and looked at it... it became amber(brownish yellow)!