Selenium Dosing

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@Randy Holmes-Farley any opinions about Selenium Glycinate? And how to dose if you recommend this?


That seems a reasonable product to use, but there are two diy recipes in this thread:

 

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I think I’ve been overdosing my tank with selenium.

Reef moonshiners icp-ms calculations had me dose .1ml per day. The past 6 nights, I’ve been dosing 1.0ml!

Should I be worried in a 152gl total volume including sump?

Next ICP-ms test will be next week Saturday.
 

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I think I’ve been overdosing my tank with selenium.

Reef moonshiners icp-ms calculations had me dose .1ml per day. The past 6 nights, I’ve been dosing 1.0ml!

Should I be worried in a 152gl total volume including sump?

Next ICP-ms test will be next week Saturday.
Probably above your target, but well below any concerning level.
BTW what is the dose in ppb/day that you were trying to do?

Let us know what it shows up as.
 

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I think I’ve been overdosing my tank with selenium.

Reef moonshiners icp-ms calculations had me dose .1ml per day. The past 6 nights, I’ve been dosing 1.0ml!

Should I be worried in a 152gl total volume including sump?

Next ICP-ms test will be next week Saturday.

Sorry, I don’t know the concentration of their product, what chemical form they use, or how they recommended a dose, but I would not worry too much. Selenium is not especially toxic in any of the common forms.
 

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Thanks guys.
My icp came back low, at .121 but if I remember correctly, the moonshiner’s calculations were on target and I needed to dose .1 daily.

Everything in the tank seems happy so I’ll just stop dosing till next week.
 

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