<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12313105#post12313105 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by miwoodar
The key to me is you feeding heavily to corals that were washed out & starved. The vodka serves as a nice and simple controllable export method, but I would have liked to have seen what would have happend if you fed more & did less water changes under your previous export methods.
BigE - Actually, my inclination says that I could have fed more without the carbon dosing and maintained the NDs on my hobby grade PO4 kits and NO3 kits. I say this because I started pounding the tank with food from day one in this experiment but my initial doses of carbon were on the order of .2 mL/day using a dilluted solution. And yet, I didn't see any of the usual byproduct spikes. I doubt I could have maintained such heavy feedings long term without the increases in carbon dosing though. From all of my experiences in this hobby (the good, the bad, and the ugly), I believe I could have found a middle ground on the feedings without the need for carbon dosing. The carbon dosing makes it so much easier though and I now feel confident that I can feed wrecklessly and not experience the typical consequences.
