Mixing my own Phosphate additive

[TWYOUNG]

I'm not sure who posted these charts for me but I have a question. If 2.85 mls of NeoPhos is needed to raise Phosphate 0.01ppm, (per NeoPhos bottle), and 15 mls of this custom mix is required for the same 0.01 ppm increase, can I mix it 5.26 times stronger, (15/2.85), so I can equilibrate the concentrations and keep dosing the same amounts I have been? I'm using the Sodium Phos Dibasic. Thank you chemists!

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I would not want to rely on math I haven't checked, but you can make phosphate solutions more concentrated than Neophos.

Use this calculator and the entry for phosphate from potassium phosphate will be close enough for this purpose. Then adjust as needed.

http://www.theplantedtank.co.uk/calculator.htm

 

[TWYOUNG]

I would not want to rely on math I haven't checked, but you can make phosphate solutions more concentrated than Neophos.

Use this calculator and the entry for phosphate from potassium phosphate will be close enough for this purpose. Then adjust as needed.

http://www.theplantedtank.co.uk/calculator.htm

Thanks, it does work out equally.