Diluting Prime, Some Math Help Needed Please.

DarkSoul

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Heres the story, I have these two dosing pumps that came on a couple of bottles of a concentrated Gatorade type of drink.
I would like to use these clean, empty bottles/pumps to dose prime into my tank, since it would be nice and simple, one pump, and put it away.

I have determined that each pump squirts out roughly 40-45ml per pump (roughly 1 1/4Oz.)

Prime, no matter the bottle size requires 5ml per 50 gallons(1ml per 10 gallons) correct?

So how do I figure out how much I need to dilute the Prime, in order to make it 45ml per 50 gallons? (4.5ml per 10 gallons??)

I would actually like to make it just slighty stronger than its required dose.... you know just to be on the safe side :)
 
Yep, fill your Gatorade bottle with a dilution of 1 part Prime to 7 parts water. One squirt will dose a 50 gallon tank, and it's on the "safe side" of the recommended dose.
 
Use distilled or RO/DI water to make up your solution not tap water.

Oh, and the formula would be:

ml dispensed divided by ml Prime = 1 part Prime to x parts water

45 / 5 = 1 to x
x = 9
1 part Prime to 9 parts water

40 / 5 = 1 to x
x = 8
1 part Prime to 8 parts water
 
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well, I appreciate the helpyou have offered me, cause god knows, I would have screwed that up somehow.

HOWEVER, I think I'm going to use these bottles to store ammonia.

I have a 500g bottle of ammonium chloride on its way to me, for cycling my tank, and I think it might be better if I mix up a batch of soloution, instead of using powder directly in the tank.

The math on that is a little more complex I think.
 
Me thinks just get a calibrated eye dropper.
 
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