How much to dose?

[Notsolostfish]

My nitrate is currently at 2ppm, and some corals getting unhappy, i doses tosay 37ml for 150G of neonitrro to get 2ppm a day, is that safe? How do i kake a balance between awc, and neo nitro to keep a balance for my nitrate

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Neonitro is expensive and lacks a purity assurance that the products I recommend have, but it is certainly safe to add 2 or 5 or more ppm at once.

When it runs out, I’d switch to food or other high grade of ammonium bicarbonate, or sodium or calcium nitrate.

 

[Notsolostfish]

Neonitro is expensive and lacks a purity assurance that the products I recommend have, but it is certainly safe to add 2 or 5 or more ppm at once.

When it runs out, I’d switch to food or other high grade of ammonium bicarbonate, or sodium or calcium nitrate.

What kind of food? Like fish food?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

What kind of food? Like fish food?

Food grade is a purity grade of chemicals allowed to be put in human food. There are certain tests it must pass, unlike many random chemicals sold to the hobby.

This is an example:

https://a.co/d/0Eubrrl

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Why not just stop the awc for a while?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Why not just stop the awc for a while?

That’s a small effect. Not sure how much is being changed, but at 1% daily changed, his current 2 ppm is only being lowered by 0.02 ppm per day. It would take 50 days to reach 3 ppm.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

That’s a small effect. Not sure how much is being changed, but at 1% daily changed, his current 2 ppm is only being lowered by 0.02 ppm per day. It would take 50 days to reach 3 ppm.

Agreed, and I guess the "just" was misplaced, but if he's having trouble keeping nutrients up, I still think stopping water changes might be a good idea.