Carbon Dosing: Elimi NP to Bactobalance conversion

[aaron186]

I lowered my PO4 down from .2 to .05 using Tropic Marin Elimi NP dosing 2mL per day into a roughly 100 gal tank over 2 months. (Hanna Checkers) This was the recommended max dose. Per my understanding I’m ready to swap from Elimi NP to Bactobalance. I’m a bit confused by the instructions because the max dose appears to be doubled on the instructions (max dose is 4mL for 100 gals). Should I just convert 1 to 1 on the Bactobalance. Do I start at 2 mL per day? Or do I go to the max dose (4) because my tank required the max dose of Elimi NP?

My understanding is that Elimi NP and Bactobalance are the same product just with N and P added to it to prevent bottoming out nutrients. If this is correct then would 4mL of Bactobalance be equivalent to 2 mL of Elimi NP?

 

[pooootiqe]

From what I gathered Elimi NP is a more straight forward carbon dosing solution whereas NP bacto balance has ammonium, trace and other good stuff in there. I don’t have Elim NP but my bottle of Balance feels “thicker” and a bit turbid compared to plus NP (hope it’s not contaminated lol)

Why not post on TM forum to see if Hans-Werner or Lou would chime in?

 

[aaron186]

From what I gathered Elimi NP is a more straight forward carbon dosing solution whereas NP bacto balance has ammonium, trace and other good stuff in there. I don’t have Elim NP but my bottle of Balance feels “thicker” and a bit turbid compared to plus NP (hope it’s not contaminated lol)

Why not post on TM forum to see if Hans-Werner or Lou would chime in?

Thank you for the advice. I just did. Didn’t realize they had their own sub forum