Carbon Dosing, who's doing it?

[Reeferhead]

I've been doing quite a bit of reading on the subject lately and am considering giving it a shot.

I was curious who's doing it locally?
What are you dosing: sugar, vodka, vinegar, other?
How much and how often?
Results?

Thanks,

 

[chadfarmer]

i dose a little sugar every sunday night (into 10ml of water and add to the tank above the corals)

 

[Reeferhead]

Chad,

What is your total system volume?
How much is "a little" ?
Does it make a noticable difference in skimmate production?

Nobody else messing with this?

 

[DARKSILENTTYPE]

I dose a product call start 2 4ml a day on a 135 gallon system

 

[spongebobby]

I dosed 3/4 teaspoon every day for about a year. It definately will make your skimmer go nuts and pull some really foul nog. I also did the Amino acids at the same time. It worked very well and my SPS grew like crazy. Just start with very small doses at first working your way up to a set amount. I knew the right amount because I would get a real bad white film at 1 teaspoon per day but at 3/4 didn't get any film so I stuck with that and it worked well.

It does a real good job on keeping nitrates in check. If i was to dose a carbon source again I believe I would try vodka this time.

I have very few SPS left that made it after my 36 hr. power outage so I no longer dose . HTH