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Re: TMG again
At 03:48 AM 8/30/01 -0400, John Wheeler wrote:
>I was just looking at my tanks (something I often forget to do), and I
>drifted of into thoughts of ferts and water additives, etc....The TMG was
>handy so I thought that I'd review the directions (novel,huh?<g>) and it
>says to add, *weekly*, a dose of 5ml/every 50 liters, right? I have been
>dosing this stuff, incorrectly i guess, for a number of weeks now and I
>have some questions.....It just makes more sense to me to dose daily. I
>counted how many "drops" of my dosing dropper it took to equal 5ml. The
>answer is 75. So....for a 110l tank (29gal) it would take ~ 150 drops/week
>(I know. I rounded down) to meet the Tropica dosing instructions. If I
>dose everyday, that would be 21-22 drops daily! What is the "common"
>practice for dosing TMG, daily or weekly?
First let me comment on quantity. I believe you should use a lot more TMG
than the label says. Some folks say 3-4 times the dose. My rule of thumb
is to work up to 1ml/gallon/week. So my 50 gallon should use 50ml (or a
bit less) per week. I dose about 5-10ml daily. I don't obsess over
getting it PERFECT.
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Dave Gomberg, San Francisco gomberg at wcf dot com
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