DOSING NITRATES AND PHOSPHATES

[ajhudson15]

@Randy Holmes-Farley
I AM CURRENTLY DOSING THE SODIUM NITARTE AND TRISODIUM PHOSPHATE TO GET YM LEVELS WHERE I WANT. MY QUESTIONS IS, CAN I DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF THESE CHEMICALS BEING ADDED TO THE SOLUTION SO THAT I ONLY HAVE TO DOSE HALF AS MUCH TO GE THE SAME EFFECT?

 

[Flippers4pups]

Good question. Bump.

 

[ajhudson15]

Bump for answer

 

[Jonreefer]

Yea why wouldn’t you. When using the planted tank calc. Say for my nitrate. I mixed 22g in 500ml water so when I dose 5ml it raises my nitrate by 1ppm in my tank. If I put in the calculator 44grams. Then 5 ml raises my tank 2ppm. I only have a 35g tank.
From randy when using the calculator for potassium phosphate if you use 1gram it’s actually.77 gram of trisodium that’s what I did. .77g in 500ml water gives me 1ml dose will raise my tank .01ppm

http://www.theplantedtank.co.uk/calculator.htm