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Potassium is important. Are you dosing? Should you?
- Thread starter justincredabel
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- Westchester NY
can you share your potassium bulk source? thanks
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- Southern California
"BulkSupplements Pure Potassium Chloride Powder (1 Kilogram)
by BulkSupplements" from amazon. Costs twenty bucks. I have been dosing 30ml dry mixed in RODI water once a week (not always) expecting that to raise my K level in my 240g system about 20 ppm.
I've been dosing it for about a year and gone through most of the bag.
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- Staten Island
how do you test for levels over 470?
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- Westchester NY
interesting... thank you. have you seen any noticeable changes? also, what does 30 ml of dry potassium raise level by in say 100G? is there a formula that you use? thank you for the info.
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- Southern California
That was my question from above. Hopefully someone will chime in here.
Justin send Help!
The only thing I can think of is to dilute the seawater in my red sea test by half with RODI water. I would expect that to work. My test kit has expired and I'm wondering if I should try the salifert one instead?
I ordered a triton test and will compare my red sea results to that when the results come in.
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- Huntington
Is this what you get? A kilo is $60 plus shipping?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MTZFYKF/?tag=reefs04-20
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- Southern California
Its hard to say what the effect has been. My SPS corals have good color, some of them are growing fast and some don't seem to grow at all.
With respect to dosing levels, here is what I found on the internet that I used to calculate my dosage. I make no claims to its accuracy so proceed with caution.
"I don't know if that works or not. Here's the math.
KCl weighs 74.5 g/mol and the potassium weighs 39.1. So KCl is (39.1 / 74.5) 52.5% potassium.
You want 10ppm in 100L. Since ppm is mg/L you want (10 * 100) 1000 mg of potassium.
1000 mg / 0.525 = 1904.7 mg.
So to get 10ppm of K in 100L of water you'd add 1.9g of KCl."
Another source said not to raise levels of potassium more than 20 ppm per day.
Good luck. Hopefully Justin will chime in here.
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- Southern California
No. when I purchased it last year it was $20 per kilo. Maybe there are other sellers.
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- Southern California
I just got my Triton results.
Red sea kit 455 ppm (from when I collected the Triton water sample)
Triton 505 ppm
At least they were in the same ball park (11% difference).
Red sea kit 455 ppm (from when I collected the Triton water sample)
Triton 505 ppm
At least they were in the same ball park (11% difference).
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- Southern California
Justin, You out there?
Anyone else have any experience maintaining high levels of Potassium and if so how are you testing for it?
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- Southern California
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I started 2 dose Red Sea as well reef energy a b n abcd colors as well still early 2 tell but can cause phosphate 2 rise significantly
I started 2 dose Red Sea as well reef energy a b n abcd colors as well still early 2 tell but can cause phosphate 2 rise significantly
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- Huntington
Can you share where you get it for $20 a kilo?
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- Suffolk County
What is the difference between using Potassium versus Potassium Chloride?
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- UWS
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- New London, CT
Hi Ya'll, poking around the internets.
editour2 Potassium is used in aquaria in the form of a dissolved solution of Potassium with other salts such as Na, Cl....
editour2 Potassium is used in aquaria in the form of a dissolved solution of Potassium with other salts such as Na, Cl....
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- New London, CT
nano, I love that video! Have any of burning pure Magnesium?
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