NOPOX Dosing... Throughout the day or within a short interval?

[Charles4400]

Just starting NOPOX for the first time.

Do you all dose throughout the the entire day (via doser) or in a shorter amount of time?

Is there a preferred method or best time to dose?

Thanks!

 

[SPR1968]

I dose twice per day at the moment with a total of 15ml

To be honest when I started out and didn’t have a doser I did it once a day and didn’t notice any difference but I’m guessing it’s better to spread it if you do have one.

 

[Hemmdog]

Not sure if there’s a best way. But I dose it at 3:30pm everyday. About an hour after my first decent sized feeding. Only 2ml on a 90gal.

 

[Lostreefin]

My doser only dosed around the clock on the hour and everything was fine. I just kept an eye on my pH, took it slow, and had great results.

 

[Garia666]

I calculated the dosing and split it up in 2. So 0830 and 20:30. For me thats 4 mill over 24 hours. It took me 5 days and my hair algea is starting to disolve (getting white) I have a reefer 250.

 

[Rybren]

I dose once an hour over a 12 hour period during daylight hours.

 

[WVNed]

I just squirted 5 ml into my tank. I do this once a day in the morning.

 

[PEP12]

I dose 15ml twice a day just make sure you are not auto dosing anything else at the same time

 

[PEP12]

I dose 15ml twice a day just make sure you are not auto dosing anything else at the same time

I meant 15ml a day total in 2 doses

 

[Oldreefer44]

I spread mine out over 6 different times but doubt it really makes much of a difference.

 

[Bato367]

I dose 2 mL once at 8am everyday by doser on my 34 gallon Red Sea (25 gallon water volume).

 

[OA3B]

I done my first dose of nopox to my 90g last night 9ml. Just got a text from my wife with bad news. Lost my bullet!(bullet goby.)

 

[User1]

I think it doesn't matter what time of day you dose however with anything in this hobby consistency is key. Having used it in the past I will say it does affect your PH. With that said it may be better to dose it during the day and over time so you do not see a drop. At least that is what I started to do towards the end when using it. That way the drop wasn't really noticeable. You can do this manually by pre-loading a couple syringes and drive by dose/inject to the sump area with high water movement.

 

[Garia666]

I done my first dose of nopox to my 90g last night 9ml. Just got a text from my wife with bad news. Lost my bullet!(bullet goby).


Sorry to hear it does affect oxygen lvls so check your fish on breathing, and I would half the dose untill youre sure Its ok

 

[Charles4400]

Thanks for the replies everyone! Seems like there is no real consensus of best way to dose NOPOX as far as spreading throughout day or in a short interval as some spread out and some dont. From what I'm hearing no ill effects either way except for overdose and being aware of oxygen drop.

Im spreading now 18ml from 8:30 to 5:30 in my rsm560.

 

[Charles4400]

I done my first dose of nopox to my 90g last night 9ml. Just got a text from my wife with bad news. Lost my bullet!(bullet goby.)

That sux sorry to hear that. Maybe it was the O2 levela as garia mentioned? Are you still using nopox and noticed any other negative side affect from it?

 

[Rick.45cal]

Mine is dosed throughout the day via an APEX DOS

 

[littlewing]

I manually dosed 4 ml in the morning until I got a doser. Now 4 ml in the morning via doser.

 

[Damien Buckley]

I've been using Nopox for about 6-7 years and always dosed on the hour, 24 hours.

Lately I've been having issues with low pH and happened upon this article.

Having trilled the dosing schedule mentioned above, I can answer definitively that changing to a daylight dosing schedule for Nopox makes all the difference.

This first chart shows the past 7 days - you can see the big swings in ph - it's exaggerated due to the scale but you get the idea, it's getting up to 7.84 in the early evening but bottoming out at 7.64 in the early hours. The alerts are each time the Seneye despatched a low pH warning, dropping below 7.78. The last exclamation mark is 31st July where I changed the schedule.

Switching to dosing the same amount of Nopox in a 24 hour period but only between the hours of 6am to 9pm had an immediate effect, flattening the swings out almost entirely, raising the peak to 7.88 (so far - this is just the past day or so) but not dropping below 7.8. This is the past 24 hours.

No more alerts!

Additionally, although I'm using the same overall amount of Nopox (20ml/d), when I tested yesterday afternoon my nitrate was down to 20.5 from 25.3 tested at the weekend - I've made no other changes. Obviously this could just be due the higher concentration dosed during the day but I don't imagine nitrate swings up and down like pH day/night?

So, the question this prompts is, is Nopox more effective dosed in larger individual doses or am I just seeing a daytime drop in nitrate because that's when I'm dosing? Will have to test either at night or early morning to see.

Either way, WINNING.

 

[WhatCouldGoWrong71]

I am doing 8ML at one time for a 135G system.