ANOTHER Interceptor dosage question?

[scottwhitson]

I am getting ready to dose my tank with interceptor and am confused on the math part of it. I am pretty sure that the pills I got were for the large dogs. I have had them for a while and don't remember what the package said. Anyway I read that you need to treat .025mg per 10 gallons of tank water. So if I was treating 100 Gallons that would be 2.5 Grams correct? The problem with that is the pills only weigh 1 Gram each so that would be 2.5pills. I thought that 1 pill would treat 380 Gallons. How much do I need to dose? I am using a reloading scale so I would prefer it in Grams or Grains.

 

[flamron]

One large dog pill treats 390 gallons. For 100 gallons total water volume, use 1/4 pill or 1/3 pill.

 

[scottwhitson]

I am not sure that I have the large dog pill. That is why I was wanting a weight so I could measure it out and be sure of the pill that I have. How much does a quarter of a pill equal. About a Salifert spoon or more?

 

[iap]

Yea about that spoon size

 

[fastpcuser]

even if you dose little more it should do anything to other things in the tank, but it still going to kill some if not allof your snails, crabs, etc...

been there, done that ...twice

 

[scottwhitson]

I had to take all the fish out of the tank prior to this anyway so I pulled all our snails and shrimp when I did that. I was just worried if it would do anything to the corals. I used two heaping salifert spoonfulls and everything looks good right now.