NeoNitro dose?

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I do not know the potency of neonitro as I do not think the web site gives that info.

I'd use this calculator and the entry of nitrate from potassium nitrate. It will give a slight (23%) underestimate to the boost of nitrate added, but you will determine the final dose by trial and error anyway and its a fine starting point.

James' Planted Tank - Dosing Calculator

 

[Bitcoin Reefer]

I do not know the potency of neonitro as I do not think the web site gives that info.

I'd use this calculator and the entry of nitrate from potassium nitrate. It will give a slight (23%) underestimate to the boost of nitrate added, but you will determine the final dose by trial and error anyway and its a fine starting point.

James' Planted Tank - Dosing Calculator

Ok so if I am making Calcium Nitrate solution, I just put Potassium Nitrate into the calculator to be clear since they don’t have Calcium Nitrate as an option? That’s where the 23% discrepancy comes from I'm guessing?

Also, in your previous post you mentioned this from Brightwell website for NeoNitro dosing:

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

Is this not sufficient to figure out dose of Calcium Nitrate that is equal to NeoNitro?

Thank you!

 

[Bitcoin Reefer]

Ok so if I am Calcium Nitrate solution, I just put in Potassium Nitrate into calculator to be clear since they don’t have Calcium Nitrate option?

Also, in your previous post you mentioned this from Brightwell website for NeoNitro dosing:

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

Is this not sufficient to figure out dose of Calcium Nitrate that is equal to NeoNitro?

Thank you!

Ok so using that calculator I tried to figure out a solution similar to NeoNitro. Am I using this right lol?

If I put 1g for tank volume, 1ml, and .0309g, that will get 5ppm increase. So if I make a solution of 1000ml, I’d need 30.09g of Calcium Nitrate?

Or to compare to NeoNitro, since 2L of NeoNitro is $25, this would come out to 60.18g of Calcium Nitrate to make 2L equivalent solution, which is about $4-$5. So I guess about 5-6x cheaper. Definitely cheaper but not as great as the cost savings for NeoPhos vs Trisodium Phosphate which is over 100x cheaper. Just want to double check my math is right, because I have no idea what I’m doing lol.

Just trying to get in the ballpark so I don’t have major drop or increase when I switch over lol. I can adjust from there with trial and error as you said.

 

[KStatefan]

Ok so using that calculator I tried to figure out a solution similar to NeoNitro. Am I using this right lol?

If I put 1g for tank volume, 1ml, and .0309g, that will get 5ppm increase. So if I make a solution of 1000ml, I’d need 30.09g of Calcium Nitrate?

Or to compare to NeoNitro, since 2L of NeoNitro is $25, this would come out to 60.18g of Calcium Nitrate to make 2L equivalent solution, which is about $4-$5. So I guess about 5-6x cheaper. Definitely cheaper but not as great as the cost savings for NeoPhos vs Trisodium Phosphate which is over 100x cheaper. Just want to double check my math is right, because I have no idea what I’m doing lol.

Just trying to get in the ballpark so I don’t have major drop or increase when I switch over lol. I can adjust from there with trial and error as you said.

That looks close to what I have.

 

[alexanderthefishlover]

Ok, so I’m doing neonitro and after adding some the nitrite suddenly went up also? Is this normal? At least it’s reading it on a nitrite test and nitrate test.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Ok, so I’m doing neonitro and after adding some the nitrite suddenly went up also? Is this normal? At least it’s reading it on a nitrite test and nitrate test.

How much of a nitrite rise? It's isn't normal for nitrate dosing, but I do not know what purity Brightwell uses since they do not mention it.

 

[alexanderthefishlover]

How much of a nitrite rise? It's isn't normal for nitrate dosing, but I do not know what purity Brightwell uses since they do not mention it.

.25 ppm from 0

 

[alexanderthefishlover]

How much of a nitrite rise? It's isn't normal for nitrate dosing, but I do not know what purity Brightwell uses since they do not mention it.

Ammonia is 0 too so it’s really odd.

 

[alexanderthefishlover]

How much of a nitrite rise? It's isn't normal for nitrate dosing, but I do not know what purity Brightwell uses since they do not mention it.

I’m also questioning the validity of the nitrate test given nitrites being present

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

.25 ppm from 0

I'd just ignore it as that is unimportant, whether real or test error.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I’m also questioning the validity of the nitrate test given nitrites being present

Which nitrate test and what result?

 

[alexanderthefishlover]

Which nitrate test and what result?

API. It’s been very accurate and I trust API have for many years. The reading was 5ppm nitrate .25ppm nitrite 0 ammonia.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

API. It’s been very accurate and I trust API have for many years. The reading was 5ppm nitrate .25ppm nitrite 0 ammonia.

I was asking because different nitrate kits have different degrees of nitrate interference. I do not recall the interference degree for API.

 

[JenP]

I recently started using NeoNitro and noticed the same thing. My nitrites increased from 0 to about 0.05. Ammonia level was also 0

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I recently started using NeoNitro and noticed the same thing. My nitrites increased from 0 to about 0.05. Ammonia level was also 0

I’d ignore it, whether it is real or not.