Azno3

Still dosing 30ml a day, although it is possible due to my nutty work schedule this week that I missed one accidentally.

Nitrates are almost down to 10ppm. It seems just a touch higher, so I'll just say 15ppm.

All the corals in the tank seem fine, as do the fish, inverts, and clam. One or two heads of frogspawn are shredding away, but I think that was due to the increased flow my VorTech is putting on the coral with the new Reefcrest mode. The other heads are in a different position and seem unaffected, but I think these two were facing the wrong way and the upsweep just tugged at them too long before I noticed.

Cyano (dark green colored) continues to get a little bit worse each day, but I'm going to siphon out all I can tomorrow. It is mainly on the sand fortunately.

The glass of the tank is very easy to clean, with no green algae at all. It is more like a whitish dusting.
 
Marc, Usually, when pH rises, ORP falls. And when pH falls, ORP rises.

I think the reason your ORP rose when you added the baking soda was a coincidence. It was probably your tank recovering from the pump malfunction that raised your ORP.
 
Just thought I would post about my carbon dosing experience.

I started dosing because the algae got bad in my tank and nothing seemed to help. Within a week of dosing the algae was dying off.

I'm one of those unlucky ones. I have low phosphates .02 - .03 and Nitrates 0. I cant grow algae in my refugium. Ive tried, it just dies.

I've removed the Live Rock, scrubbed it of algae and cooked it. Within a few months I was back to a tank full of algae. At that point I had one fish :( And I fed him/her lightly.
I have a large skimmer. I added a 55 gallon drum to my system. ( the secret to pollution is dilution)

I knew I had to try something different.

I dose vinegar and vodka. I dose as much or as little as needed. If the tank looks good I back off. If the tank starts getting algaey (a new word?) I dose more. As much as 60ml in 120 gallons of water volume

Ive dosed so much that i have bacteria slime all over the tank.
So much slime that my refugium has a 1" layer of slime on the surface of the water that i skim off. The skimmer needs to be emptied sometimes three times a day. The corals are covered in slime. The rocks have 8" long strings of slime.
The corals eat it. Ive seen a string of slime come in contact with a hammer coral and the coral shows a feeding response.

My pH has gone as low as 7.5 during one of these overdose episodes.

When the tank returns to normal in a day or two it looks great.
I may be living on the edge of disaster but so far i haven't seen it.
And its worth trying since nothing else worked.

The corals look better then ever are growing faster then ever and are going from brown to colorful.
The algae is on its last leg.
 
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Just wanted to point out that I have used this for quite a while now in my 120 gallon reef which has nitrate issues from my sand bed....It has worked wonders...coral is growing at 3x the rate it was and is more colorful than ever....I saw no adverse affects from this product, only good ones:)

Hope this helps!
Richard
SaltySupply.com
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11009137#post11009137 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by saltysupply
Just wanted to point out that I have used this for quite a while now in my 120 gallon reef which has nitrate issues from my sand bed....It has worked wonders...coral is growing at 3x the rate it was and is more colorful than ever....I saw no adverse affects from this product, only good ones:)

Hope this helps!
Richard
SaltySupply.com
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Can you be more specific? "this product" you must be referring to AZNO3, and not carbon dosing, correct?

Not sure I understand the above post about carbon dosing...
 
Skydancer,

The end result of using Azno3 (Cozymase) is a bacterial bloom.

You can get the same result using Vodka,sugar,vinegar,etc. These are all a source of carbon.

Hence my post about carbon dosing.
 
Thought I'd through my 2 cents in to... don't waste your money on AZNO3. Just use vodka, it'll accomplish the same thing. You can go faster, but, you don't need to. I've used AZNO3, does it work yes, however vodka is works just as fine and is cheaper. Any 80 proof vodka will do, I use the stuff in the plastic bottle, Karkarov. It's like $9.99 for a huge bottle....

I agree with Zedar, no need for AZNO3. Did you consider using vodka/sugar?
 
If you are talking about AZNO3, then yes for a while, but you taper off the dosing until it is no longer necessary. It takes a couple of weeks to do this.
 
Since I dosed more slowly (using more product) for a system with a water volume that is guesstimated (lowball) at 300g, it has taken 3 bottles so far. $60. I still have just under 3 bottles left. :)
 
Sorry I didnt clarify...I was referring to the azno3 product...Has worked great for me...corals are happy, fish are happy:)


<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11009780#post11009780 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by skydancer
Can you be more specific? "this product" you must be referring to AZNO3, and not carbon dosing, correct?

Not sure I understand the above post about carbon dosing...
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It appears my nitrates are now under 5ppm as of today.

nitrate_1030.jpg
 
Wow, very impressive Marc. :)

I wonder whats going to happen when you stop using it. :D

I'll stay tuned. Still not a believer. :)
 
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