I sat down and spent some time working through the cycle and possible interactions of both sugar and vodka. Sugar seems likely to promote initial bloom but that bloom may die off quickly from once a day addition and provide the foam skimmate everyone notes with this treatment.
The ethanol addition seems to have a more extensive pathway as it potentially feeds multiple levels of bacteria that may take days to go through the entire cycle.
One thing I noticed though was the ability of anaerobic bacter to utilize heavy metals such as molybdenum. Then PBS aired a special on copper use in heme equivalent in crabs.
Could ethanol dosing sequester harmful reef heavy metal contaminants such as copper by some yet unelucidated pathway? Or is one already known? Or am I thinking way too much into this and should just add vodka and keep my random thoughts to myself?
The ethanol addition seems to have a more extensive pathway as it potentially feeds multiple levels of bacteria that may take days to go through the entire cycle.
One thing I noticed though was the ability of anaerobic bacter to utilize heavy metals such as molybdenum. Then PBS aired a special on copper use in heme equivalent in crabs.
Could ethanol dosing sequester harmful reef heavy metal contaminants such as copper by some yet unelucidated pathway? Or is one already known? Or am I thinking way too much into this and should just add vodka and keep my random thoughts to myself?
