Help me with dosing NeoNitro

[Reeflix]

hello all! i just got some neonitro and i was wondering how quickly i should raise it. right now it is at 0.9 and i want to get it to 5.0. should i dose enough it raise it 1 point every day? should i raise it 2 points every week? also should i dose this with neophos or something else?

thanks all for your input!

 

[Lavey29]

It won't hurt anything to dose heavy. I double dosed mine daily for several weeks before I got measurable numbers. Try feeding more also to make nitrates increase.

 

[Reeflix]

i have been feeding more coral and fish food but i was taking a week to get 0.01 so i gave up on that

 

[Reeflix]

i think ill probably dose it to get it up one point per day, is that fine?

 

[Reeflix]

also how many ml are needed to get to 0.9 to 1.9

 

[exnisstech]

i think ill probably dose it to get it up one point per day, is that fine?

That should be fine. I dose sodium nitrate and sometimes raise it 3-4 ppm at once. May tanks run low and if I dose too slowly I cant raise it. I like to quickly raise it to where I want it then maintain it after that.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I’d add 2 ppm per day to start. Brightwell is extraordinarily vague on its potency, probably because it is reported to be quite weak.

Does the bottle itself say anything on dose?

I recommend using food grade sodium or calcium nitrate from Amazon.

 

[Reeflix]

calcium nitrate to raise it instead of the neonitro? the bottles does say how to dose but it is complicated

 

[Reeflix]

i was wondering you have experience using it, and if you did, how many ml did you use to raise it 2ppm

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

i was wondering you have experience using it, and if you did, how many ml did you use to raise it 2ppm

Who are you asking?

For the materials I recommend there’s a calculator.

What exactly does the bottle say about amount to dose? The web directions are useless.

 

[arafas]

From my experience this stuff is week I was dosing 10ml a day on 200g to bring up. If you have undetected might take a while but since you are showing some value might be quicker, I don't know the if I am correct. Randy can correct me. Might take a week or 2 to gwt up to the value you want.

 

[Idech]

i was wondering you have experience using it, and if you did, how many ml did you use to raise it 2ppm

It depends on how many gallons in your tank. For my 75 gallons, I usually add 3 caps (5 ml each) that will being my nitrates up 1,5 ppm total.

I like to add phosphates (Neophos) as well in a ratio of 1/100. I don’t really calculate for phosphates, I just add a little bit, like the bottom of the cap. It’s more than 1/100 but it will do.

 

[Reeflix]

ok so i have a 75g so thats helpful!

 

[Reeflix]

Who are you asking?

For the materials I recommend there’s a calculator.

What exactly does the bottle say about amount to dose? The web directions are useless.

the bottle say times this for a 75g and add this much and it really confused me. i really dont want to make a mistake because you know how it goes, you overdose then something get stressed from the high increase ect ect. i was asking anyone really.

 

[Reeflix]

ok i have a really accurate calculator but it is for calcium, DKH mag and not nitrates. do you recommend one?

 

[Idech]

ok i have a really accurate calculator but it is for calcium, DKH mag and not nitrates. do you recommend one?

If you want to be sure, just start with one cap, wait until the next day and test your nitrates. You’ll see exactly how much it was raised.

If you have a 75 gallons tank, there is no need to search everywhere : you have an example for that size on the bottle that tells you exactly what to do.

 

[biom]

I'd dose 2 ppm nitrate per day for a few days to see what happens.

I'm not a fan of using products of unknown purity such as Neonitro, but one can calculate the dose from Brightwell's literature (with the assumption that they are correct, which might not be true lol).

Brightwell Aquatics - NeoNitro

"1 ml NEONITRO will increase the nitrate concentration in 1 US-gallon (~3.8 L) by ~5 ppm; "

So to dose 2 ppm in 270 gallons will require:

1 mL/gallon x 270 gallons x 2 ppm/5 ppm = 108 mL per day

Randy wrote this some two years ago. It looks they removed this sentence since, but probably the concentration is the same.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

ok i have a really accurate calculator but it is for calcium, DKH mag and not nitrates. do you recommend one?

There's no calculator for neonitro that I know if. It is for DIY products.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Randy wrote this some two years ago. It looks they removed this sentence since, but probably the concentration is the same.

Thanks.

Assuming that statement from Brightwell is the same as the bottle says:

"1 ml NEONITRO will increase the nitrate concentration in 1 US-gallon (~3.8 L) by ~5 ppm;"

then I'd dose about 30 mL per day to 75 gallons of water to be adding 2 ppm per day.

 

[biom]

Just to note that probably in NeoNitro there are other nitrogen sources besides nitrates such as amino acids ammonia salts etc. and measuring nitrates soon after dosing may give false low readings.