Raising No³

[RELLIK-REEF]

@Randy Holmes-Farley
Will this work? I'm at .38 and I'd really like to get up around the 5-10 ppm range. Po⁴ is at .16 now.
Could you help me out with this? I'd like to make a solution to dose if possible. Never thought I'd be trying to bring this up in my tank but I don't have many fish in this tank as it's our sps dominant mixed reef grow out tank for our upcoming build.

All help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[RELLIK-REEF]

@Randy Holmes-Farley
Will this work? I'm at .38 and I'd really like to get up around the 5-10 ppm range. Po⁴ is at .16 now.
Could you help me out with this? I'd like to make a solution to dose if possible. Never thought I'd be trying to bring this up in my tank but I don't have many fish in this tank as it's our sps dominant mixed reef grow out tank for our upcoming build.

All help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

It says the right things, but I'm wary of unbranded chemicals truly being what they say.

 

[RELLIK-REEF]

What do you recommend? That's what I found on Amazon.

 

[RELLIK-REEF]

I looked for food grade

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Loudwolf is a god brand that you can buy direct.

Here's another:

 

[RELLIK-REEF]

Thank you. Can you tell me the way to mix it for dosing

 

[Gtinnel]

I used to have to dose sodium nitrate solution to my tank and that is the same bag that I bought, and never saw any negative effect to my tank, although I didn't need to use it for very long.

Before that I also used stump remover for a few years without any problems too. I just switched because I was concerned about the build up of potassium, plus I doubt chemical purity is much of a concern at the stump remover bottling factory.

ETA- sorry I meant to quote your message but it was the first bag from Amazon that I was referring to using. It won't let me edit the post to add the quote.

 

[RELLIK-REEF]

Thank you

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Thank you. Can you tell me the way to mix it for dosing

Sure, you dissolve it in RO/DI at a level where it will dissolve (not more than 0.5 g/mL), but beyond that, it's up to you to decide what is handy to dose.

This calculator walks you though it. Use the entry for nitrate from potassium nitrate even though you are using sodium nitrate. it is close enough.

James' Planted Tank - Dosing Calculator

I'd start by dosing about 2 ppm a day and see what happens over a few days.

 

[RELLIK-REEF]

Thank you. I really appreciate your help.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Thank you. I really appreciate your help.

You're welcome.

Happy reefing.