Is my dosing math correct?

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Total water volume: 90gallons
Volume of solution: 1000ml
Volume of individual dose: 5ml
Ingredient: Monosodium Phosphate, .25tsp

That should raise my phosphate about .015ppm, yes?

I'm using the calculator from


With potassium phosphate, taking 77% of the result from that calculator (I believe I've read Dr. RHF say to do that)

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Why not keep it simple and just feed some pellet food to your fish and reef roids to your corals once a week to raise phosphate?
 
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I do both of those things currently. Probably could feed reef roids more often.

My phosphates are near zero but my nitrates are high. I carbon dose and want to keep my phosphate detectable without adding nitrate
 

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I do both of those things currently. Probably could feed teef roids more often.

My phosphates are near zero but my nitrates are high. I carbon dose and want to keep my phosphate detectable without adding nitrate
I had to dose neophos for several months. With your volume slightly more then mine, 10ml daily would suffice easily.
 

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Total water volume: 90gallons
Volume of solution: 1000ml
Volume of individual dose: 5ml
Ingredient: Monosodium Phosphate, .25tsp

That should raise my phosphate about .015ppm, yes?

I'm using the calculator from


With potassium phosphate, taking 77% of the result from that calculator (I believe I've read Dr. RHF say to do that)

Screenshot_20240119-103917.png

Math is good. I get 0.017 before correction. Rounding errors are reduced by using 9 gallons and multiply the amount needed 10x.
 

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