Let's see vinegar only tanks!
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MammothReefer
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Only Tank I would want to put vinegar onto looks like this.
cmaxwell39
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Started with Vodka, but for the last year or so have been strictly vinegar for carbon source.
evolutionZ
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mixed reef 65g, 48x24x14" shallow tank.. 10ml vinegar daily (5ml morning and 5ml night). tank is 1month + old and ive been dosing vinegar for the last 3 weeks.
all sps and corals doing and growing well.
my nitrate is kept at 2ppm max.. it was 0.5 - 1ppm before most of my current fishes went in.
all sps and corals doing and growing well.
my nitrate is kept at 2ppm max.. it was 0.5 - 1ppm before most of my current fishes went in.
Biggest cited reason that I've read.
Not completely understood, but ethanol as a carbon source seems to fuel it much more.
epicurus84
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Only Tank I would want to put vinegar onto looks like this.
Where the vinnegar in this case needs some egg yoke, musterd, salt peper and a lot of oil (aka mayonaise
) .Anyhow, it's just like any other carbon dosing. If used the correct way it should be able to get the same results as wodka or biopellets only tanks.
evolutionZ
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vodka fuels cyano and from what i read, sugar seems to have some side effects too. so far the best among this 3 seems to be vinegar.
NeilFox
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Where the vinnegar in this case needs some egg yoke, musterd, salt peper and a lot of oil (aka mayonaise
Anyhow, it's just like any other carbon dosing. If used the correct way it should be able to get the same results as wodka or biopellets only tanks.
Epicurus:
I thought you guys called it Frite Sause? Maybe I spelled it wrong. I got used to eating chips like this when I stayed in Rotterdam for a year. I hope you are not an Ajax fan!!!
In all seriousness. I have heard that vinegar works primarily on reducing nitrate as opposed to phosphate. Is this the same with other carbon sources?
Piper27
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Looking forward to some veterans who have been using vinegar to post.
I am finally taking the plunge after realizing most of my favorite tanks all carbon dose. Although I will wait a good while before I post since I just started recently.
Also I have tried to read up on it a lot, but this is the first I have heard of vinegar being primarily for nitrate and vodka working better with phosphate. I am guessing this is why people like mixing the two sources.
I am finally taking the plunge after realizing most of my favorite tanks all carbon dose. Although I will wait a good while before I post since I just started recently.
Also I have tried to read up on it a lot, but this is the first I have heard of vinegar being primarily for nitrate and vodka working better with phosphate. I am guessing this is why people like mixing the two sources.
biodegraded
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Not my tank, but it is a vinegar only system.
tmantaylor18
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Anyone have a link that explains the process of dosing vinegar?
penfold2
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http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-08/nftt/
This link explains vodka dosing. Vinegar dosing is similar except you typically need 8 times as much vinegar as vodka since most vinegar is sold at a 5% dilution vs vodka's 40%.
MammothReefer
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Where the vinnegar in this case needs some egg yoke, musterd, salt peper and a lot of oil (aka mayonaise
.
Hmm.. That's a bit complex for me! Some simple white vinegar does the trick. Anymore then that and I'm reaching for Poutine!
Mark
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Where the vinnegar in this case needs some egg yoke, musterd, salt peper and a lot of oil (aka mayonaise
Lekker, but I prefer Patatje oorlog
epicurus84
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we got some variants on mayonaise (which is also in frietje oorlog, but thats mayonaise with unions, and some kind of peanut sause, and sometimes even tomato ketchup or some herb ketchup). Friet saus is something like mayonaise just with way less oil. (also thicker). But it's still roughly the same.
Anyhow, to get back on topic:
Bacteria need phosphates to reduce nitrates. I don't exactly know how this works. But a guy (glennf) he might have an account here too knows this better then me:
http://dreamreef.nl/index.php?threads/wat-te-doen-bij-een-te-hoog-nitraat.16790/
http://zeewaterforum.nl/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=26758
however both are dutch sites maybe google translate can translate most.
Look up the Redfield ratio. It basically explains the carbon:nitrate
hospate ratio bacteria need.
