DIY Ammonia Dosing Chart

[TriGa22]

I’m dosing 5mls in a 25 Lagoon and still have undetected nitrate on a Salifert Nitrate test. I’ve been dosing for 2 weeks and I dose one bolus dose in the afternoon. Moving up to week three is scaring me - I haven’t tested but the chart says I’m adding .3ppm ammonia all at once - talk me off the ledge? Is bolus fine because the literature says don’t add more than .1 in 24hr but the chart gives amounts to exceed that?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I’m dosing 5mls in a 25 Lagoon and still have undetected nitrate on a Salifert Nitrate test. I’ve been dosing for 2 weeks and I dose one bolus dose in the afternoon. Moving up to week three is scaring me - I haven’t tested but the chart says I’m adding .3ppm ammonia all at once - talk me off the ledge? Is bolus fine because the literature says don’t add more than .1 in 24hr but the chart gives amounts to exceed that?

If you ramp up to more, I'd split the dose.