dosing stump remover

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TomFromStLouis

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Well, I finally rushed out to buy potassium nitrate. I added one teaspoon to my 75 gallons which had shown zero nitrates. An hour later: zero nitrates.

Hmmm. Add another teaspoon. Got lots of plants (some turning brown due to lack of nitrate I figure), so overdosing not likely. Besides a water change can fix an OD. Later: still no noticible amount of nitrate. Zero. Absolutely clear when it should be pink. It's a new Hagen test kit that has done well on other tests so far. Before I add more stump remover, I thought I'd let the collective wisdom of this board weigh in. I gotta go get some enema stuff. Do I just ask for the rectal aisle?;)
 
Check the contents. Mine is Spectracide. Fleet for the enema. I use 1/2 teaspoon in my 72 gallon 2x weekly that hold my nitrates at 5. I have a harder time with the fleet. Something just sucks the phosphates out of mine overnight!

With the Hagen kit make sure you time it. I think it takes 5 minutes before it is stable.
 
Tom, the Hagan kit you bought.....does it have the #3 re-agent in a glass bottle? If not it's worthless. #1 and #2 can be plastic, but not #3. Take it back to the store and get a kit with a glass #3 bottle, not plastic. If it does have a glass bottle I'm stumped(no pun intended). I'd ask the same question as Tempest. What kind of Stump Remover are you using?
Skitty, what kind of reactor did you buy and where? Sounds like a good one.
Len
 
all plastic

Big Al's sent me some all-in-one kit that has #3 in a plastic bottle.

Dang Len, do you know EVERYTHING?

So what is it I am actually now asking for? Is there a name for this chemical or is it known as NO3 #3? I am going to have to call around and it would be nice to know what to ask for. LFS or some small chemical sales outfit or...?
 
Originally posted by skeletalmachine
Why would the third reagent have to come in a glass bottle? I've never seen such a thing before? I would suppose that if the reagent reacted with the plastic they would never have put it in there in the first place!
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Yeah, you'd think.

Nothing surprises me though. Almost nothing.
 
Tom (from St. Louis),
I had originally picked up some stuff called Bonide Stump Remover. Red and yellow canister that didn't mention any ingredients. Someone at Aquabotanic warned me off it, said it wasn't NO3 and that they thought it was toxic for the fish, so you might want to double check. Found the Spectracide at Lowe's a few weeks later.

I had a lot of trouble finding Stump Remover over the winter but I think its a seasonal product: its one of the things they pull to make room for snow shovels and rock salt, etc. If you've been having trouble finding it you may want to take another look now that Spring is (almost not quite) here.
 
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