Dosing honey ay?

[Chrissypoo]

Could reefers with experience in this chime in? dosing amounts, how often, any particular brand, etc...

 

[REEF SMAC]

Saw somewhere someone else mentioning this. I thought is was some kind of Joke.

What is it supposed to do?

I think I'm gonna let you try it first.

 

[E Rosewater]

I have to follow this to see where it goes

 

[kaserpick]

Is it supposed to be a carbon source, similar to dosing sugar? I think I saw a post about using it, instead of amino acids, but that wouldn't have been my first guess.

 

[keithhays]

You will need to find out what an equivalent to sugar would be. Sugar is about 1/32 of a teaspoon for 10 gallons or 1 teaspoon for 300 gallons every other day. I am not certain I would use honey because I would not be certain what else is in it, but if you were you would need to figure out how much of your particular honey equals 1 teaspoon of sugar and then divide it out. Honey being a natural product is not consistent in this regard.

To answer the other person's question, I would presume you would be carbon dosing with it.

 

[keithhays]

...Also honey is a natural antibiotic, so it probably would not be a good idea in your tank.

 

[CHSUB]

a thread with amazingly colorful sps's stated he was dosing honey, he also stated his no3 was +50 ppm.... hard to believe either?

 

[REEF SMAC]

...Also honey is a natural antibiotic, so it probably would not be a good idea in your tank.

This is what I was thinking too.^^

You are not supposed to feed honey to infants for some reason.

 

[keithhays]

Its the risk of Clostridium bacteria which can cause infant botulism. It generally it grows in soils, but can also grow in honey.
This is one of the reasons that I don't make batches of simple syrup to dose my tank with, I make a fresh sugar water every other day which I boil before dosing. I am not particularly worried about the individual bacteria for sugar, but any bacteria growing in it could be introduced to the tank that wouldn't normally be introduced.

 

[dvanacker]

so why would honey be any better for a tank than simple sugar.

If we are after a carbon source you think we would want the most pure and simple carbon.

 

[keithhays]

so why would honey be any better for a tank than simple sugar.

If we are after a carbon source you think we would want the most pure and simple carbon.

I don't think it would, all logic says it would be bad for a tank. You would be rolling the dice.

 

[gael85]

hi

i think Clostridium bacteria is not dangerous in you reef except if you want to eat fishes or corals lool effect of honey is like sugar so you have to dose it in few quantity like sugar

you can dose honey after feeding fishes, in combination of amoniacs corals will use AA

 

[Touring]

iv been feeding 1 teaaspoon every other day for about 6 months and the corals love it. started using this instead of amino. sps colors are beautiful.

theres a few threads on this already

 

[Jeremy B.]

I would think molasses, which is heavily used in the aquaculture industry for the same purpose, would have the same effect and might be a bit cheaper?

 

[trueblackpercula]

iv been feeding 1 teaaspoon every other day for about 6 months and the corals love it. started using this instead of amino. sps colors are beautiful.

theres a few threads on this already

Please post some pictures as I was reading about this a while back.

 

[GHill762]

I've seen a thread or two about this.. it's suppose to be like cabon+aminos.. lots of other vitamins and nutrients in it as well.. following.

 

[Dukester]

a thread with amazingly colorful sps's stated he was dosing honey, he also stated his no3 was +50 ppm.... hard to believe either?

this is exactly how rumors start.. he stated once in the beginning of his thread his No3 was 50 ppm.. through out the rest of his thread he has stated his n03 is closer to 5ppm.. im sure the above (50) was either a one time thing, or just a typo lost in the translation.. if his no3 was really 50, would honey dosing as a carbon source really make sense?

 

[animalkingdom]

Its the risk of Clostridium bacteria which can cause infant botulism. It generally it grows in soils, but can also grow in honey.
This is one of the reasons that I don't make batches of simple syrup to dose my tank with, I make a fresh sugar water every other day which I boil before dosing. I am not particularly worried about the individual bacteria for sugar, but any bacteria growing in it could be introduced to the tank that wouldn't normally be introduced.

I dont think you need to worry about introducing bacteria that grows well in high nutrient sugar syrup in your tank. most likely anything that survives in the syrup wont do so hot in the tank.

 

[Jstn]

I think the honey would be more like biopellets, as the polymer breaks down it releases sugars in a controlled fashion.

 

[trueblackpercula]

How is it you can find the dosing rate per gallon? I don't think I will beeeee taking thus leap of faith.