Help With Math!

[DegaBird]

Chemistry really scrambles my brain and I need some serious hand holding lol.
I have a 25 gallon IM lagoon. My nitrates are 0 and have been zero. Average phosphate sits around .14
I have a food grade bag of Ammonium Bicorbonate sitting on my desk that even after scouring past forum threads I just do not understand how/how much/how often to dose.

Can someone please help me with how to dose this? Thank you so much!

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Sure.

This is the ammonia dosing thread:

DIY Ammonia dosing for low nitrate systems

Some reef aquaria have chronic low nitrogen availability. One indicator is very low nitrate. Nitrate dosing is a fine remedy, but it is possible that ammonia dosing may be more beneficial for some organisms since ammonia can be energetically easier to assimilate than is nitrate. For this...

www.reef2reef.com

From it:

Make this dosing solution:

20 grams of ammonium bicarbonate (about 4 and 3/4 teaspoons) in 1 L RO/DI water.


To add 0.1 mg/L ammonia to an aquarium, you would need to add 2.3 mL of either stock solution to a 100 L (26 gallon) aquarium. You may need to add this amount multiply times per day to dose enough.


I would start doing it once per day. Since your tank is just under that volume, I’d dose 2.2 mL per day.

 

[DegaBird]

Thank you SO MUCH! I really appreciate the help.

 

[DegaBird]

Sure.

This is the ammonia dosing thread:

DIY Ammonia dosing for low nitrate systems

Some reef aquaria have chronic low nitrogen availability. One indicator is very low nitrate. Nitrate dosing is a fine remedy, but it is possible that ammonia dosing may be more beneficial for some organisms since ammonia can be energetically easier to assimilate than is nitrate. For this...

www.reef2reef.com

From it:

Make this dosing solution:

20 grams of ammonium bicarbonate (about 4 and 3/4 teaspoons) in 1 L RO/DI water.


To add 0.1 mg/L ammonia to an aquarium, you would need to add 2.3 mL of either stock solution to a 100 L (26 gallon) aquarium. You may need to add this amount multiply times per day to dose enough.


I would start doing it once per day. Since your tank is just under that volume, I’d dose 2.2 mL per day.

Actually one more dumb question. Since it's a small tank, that's a lot of fresh water to add. Will this dissolve properly in salt water?

 

[BryanM]

Actually one more dumb question. Since it's a small tank, that's a lot of fresh water to add. Will this dissolve properly in salt water?

Dosing 2.2ml of the ammonium bicarbonate solution is a very small amount of water/solution.

 

[DegaBird]

Dosing 2.2ml of the ammonium bicarbonate solution is a very small amount of water/solution.

I focused on the 1 Liter, not the ML lol. My error, thank you!