Dosing phosphate with a dosing pump.. will it work?

[125mph]

I'm dosing phosphates into my frag tank every day. No fish in the tank so the phosphate keeps dropping too low. I want to use a dosing pump to make this automated.

Will this work? Right now, I premix trisodium phosphate into a 300ml bottle. I can see a lot of it sits on the bottom and I have to shake vigorously before I dose manually.

With the dosing pump, I assume this wont work because some of the stuff settles and seperates?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Sure, it will work fine. Sodium phosphate dissolves and will never settle out.

You might also dose ammonium bicarbonate that way. I do that in my normal tank.

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