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Can anybody help me in determining the formula of how much Iodide I would dose to raise my Iodine levels within my system? I have 450 gallons of water and below is the most recent results from an API water test I had done. The first column is my present Iodine levels, the 2nd column is their recommended target level and the last is what's recommended to get to the recommended level.
Iodine 13.83 µg/l 65.17 µg/l -51.33 µg/l
I have Seachems Reef Iodide and this was off the directions;
Add 1 mL for each 80 L (20 US gallons) daily to raise iodide by 0.10 mg/L
My best guess from looking online as to the symbol that they are using is micro gram per liter and even if that's right I wont do well in trying to figure out conversions/dosing etc- more than likely I will screw something up if not the entire tank.
Any help would be greatly appreciated-!!!!
Thanks
If you are at 0.014 ppm (14 ug/L) and want to raise it to 0.06 ppm (60 ug/L), you would need to add 0.046 ppm.
Thus, if the above sentence about the seachem product is correct (I did not verify it), you would add ~0.5 mL per 20 gallons.