dosing vodka

rekn

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well ive been dosing it awhile now and to what i came home to i feel everyone should know.


if you dose it or sugar have a 100% water change ready to go at all times.


came home today, i had been weening my tank of of it, to fish gasping for breath on the substrate. had a huge blume before i did 14G change to my 56. my lyretail anthias seem fine ( theyre hiding still but breath has returned to normal rate and theyre venturing out) my baby sailfin is still breathing heavy but swimming around normally (very active as hes a tang) and my engineer and rainford gobies are acting as if nothing is wrong.


no losses yet and seeing as how all the LFS will be closed by the time i get to the springs im keeping my fingers crossed. everything is done that i can do, put in an airstone and did WCes, so now i sit and wait.
 
How long had you been dosing, and at what rate did you ramp it up? Also how long was that tank set up before you started dosing? Were you checking you nitrates and phosphates? Please expand on the process.
 
the tanks been up id say 6 months,ive been dosing for about 2. my nitrates phos went to 0 or thereabouts, never above 10
 
Sorry to hear rekn, that sucks, thanks for telling us. I have been dosing for 10 weeks now without problems, but I will have to seriuosly watch the oxygen levels more closely now. I still have not been able to get my trates below 1, but I'm not so sure I want to.

How much did you dose in your 56g? Also, did your Ph fall rapidly? I ask because this is how I am monitoring/guesstimating my oxygen level.
 
my ph was fine, ill have to check what i have written down for dosing ( i have a schedule so to speak for dosing). i honestly think this problem is due to my crappy skimmer ( prizm) if i had a decent one im thinking this wouldve never happened.
 
sorry to hear about your losses, maybe now is a good time to dose some vodka of your own, via the absolute citron variety. ;)
 
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