I don't have a dsb, if i remember correctly when reading melevs thread. I think he said he had a bad nitrate test kit. he used a needle to make the hole bigger in one of the test bottles cause it wouldnt drip for him. after he got a new kit i think his nitrates read 0 or close to it.
Vodka dosing going no where??
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I think that was a different thread. Here is the thread - Melevs Reef. HTH.
shandy_say
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well anyway hope everything works out for you. Keep us posted!
Yeah, his thread on RC was closed the last time I checked.
5mL should be fine to increase at this point.
right now i'm doing 4.5ml. couple more days and i'll bump up to 5ml. nitrate seems to be holding steady at 20 ppm. using api test kit. the test color seems to be getting a little lighter. I still haven't done a wc. I want to see what happens when i get to 5ml. I think 5ml might drop my nitrates. the skimmate coming out of my skimmer has increased significantly. It was a light see through tea color skimmate before. Now its a dark black skimmate that i cannot see through even when shining a flash light to it.
it will take time and patience
I had my nitrates at 80>out of scale lol
I have a 90g with a total of 110 gal system
been dosing for almost two months now
and they are down to 20..still holding Im using the 3 parts recipe (vodka sugar vinegar)
I'm up to 9.4 mils /day ,....started very slowly Im looking forward to see the zeroes
skimmer is putting out black skimmate the water clarity is incredible
I had my nitrates at 80>out of scale lol
I have a 90g with a total of 110 gal system
been dosing for almost two months now
and they are down to 20..still holding Im using the 3 parts recipe (vodka sugar vinegar)
I'm up to 9.4 mils /day ,....started very slowly Im looking forward to see the zeroes
skimmer is putting out black skimmate the water clarity is incredible
i'm up to 4.5ml daily right now. Water clarity is clear but I could owe that to my rox carbon also. But nitrate is holding at 20ppm still. Waiting to see it drop down to zero one day. I'm only dosing vodka right now. Skimmer is producing a lot of black skim. Loving my skimmer to say the least
hawaiian_boi
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i started dosing vodka on feb 1st of this year and only 3 weeks ago did my n and p start to drop. but i did have a deep sand bed and i feed a lot and my tank has been up and running for almost 2 years . the week i noticed my n and p dropping i noticed all my corals starting to color up like i have never seen before.
same here with deep sand bed.. its 4" and my tank is 9 years old
plus Im dosing 3 ml a day of hydrogen peroxide 3% to help with oxygen
I wouldn't dose hydrogen peroxide, personally. It is an oxidizer and can damage animals, especially fish gills, for example, and it's not going to add a significant amount of oxygen. The tank flow and skimmers should be enough. People have used it to make the water clearer.
from a not recent study/research was said that 5 mils per a 100 gal system is still safe wanted to go with a lower dose and went with 3 ml
Ive been dosing since I started with VSV dosing ...I personally don't think that would cause really damage in a 100 + gals system:hmm2: but I could be wrong
so far all living creatures seems to be fine
sounds like an idea, i'll try that
do you think that could cause my nitrates not going down? i have 6 fish, 1 cleaner shrimp and a bunch of sps some lps and some rics. fishes are small, should i add some more LR to my sump? I dont really have any more space in my DT for rock as my sps is all glued down and encrusted.
