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I cheated when I started dosing. I figured out ralatively where my tank was going to be as a maintenance dose after the nitrates came down, so I knew where my dosing level was going to get to. I upped my does by 5mls a week, and it only took a few weeks for me to see the nitrates atart to come down.Thank you Reefing Madness, do you use the vodka method ? If you use it, at which time the nitrate begin to lower ? I arrived at week 3, 3rd day. Today i'm going to check it. I always had a problem with high nitrates. I started to use an algae scrubber, i think that it will help too what do you think?
Vodka Dosing by 'Genetics' and 'Stony_Corals' - Reefkeeping.comHow does vodka dosing work
It will continue to remove very nasy sludge until the nitrate levels subside.
I cheated when I started dosing. I figured out ralatively where my tank was going to be as a maintenance dose after the nitrates came down, so I knew where my dosing level was going to get to. I upped my does by 5mls a week, and it only took a few weeks for me to see the nitrates atart to come down.
If you are going by normal operating proceedure, its going to take you roughly 7 months before you see them come down.
At 1.8mls a day, if your waiting for nitrates to come down, your going to be waiting a long time.
Read the article. Also saw suggestions of possable multi carbon dosing in other articles. Here's is my question. If all reduce nitrates and phosphates am d sugar and vinegar contaminate easier, why does diversity in bacteria matter? As long as the bacteria induced by vodka do the trick, why chanse the two more unstable liquids to gain diversity if it does not change the outcome? Why does it matter if its one type of bacteria or several?