I started vodka dosing about 18 months ago due to high nitrates and not finding a way to lower them consistantly. Vodka dropped them to 0 with phosphates remaining around .04. Other than that I haven't really seen any positives and possibly some negatives. It actually seems to me as my tank was a better ecosystem before dosing. I have a mixed reef but zoo's and acans are my favs. Zoo's have continued to do well but the acans seem to be suffering over the last 6-8 months. Could be anything. I can't find the cause. I also have an established 4 year old tank with very few pods. No wrasses, mandarin or scooters. Nothing that would prey soley on pods and yet I see very very few over the last long while. Even in my chateo, calurpa filled fuge with nothing else in it but live rock chunks.
I can't think of anything I have changed. RSCP salt for 2+years, 35-5 ml of Ak per day, 200ml of Mg once per week and 7 drops of lugals once per week in a 180 system with a 75 gallon sump.
I also used to have beautiful corraline covered rocks and since I started it seems as if it got less and less to the point now that I have absolutey none.
I have no idea if any of this has anything to do at all with vodka dosing. I don't claim to know jack about the chemistry in this hobby Some of it seems to have a time frame that could be related and I have contemplated quiting the dosing and going back to a little more dirty tank.
Anybody quit dosing and wish they hadn't?
I can't think of anything I have changed. RSCP salt for 2+years, 35-5 ml of Ak per day, 200ml of Mg once per week and 7 drops of lugals once per week in a 180 system with a 75 gallon sump.
I also used to have beautiful corraline covered rocks and since I started it seems as if it got less and less to the point now that I have absolutey none.
I have no idea if any of this has anything to do at all with vodka dosing. I don't claim to know jack about the chemistry in this hobby Some of it seems to have a time frame that could be related and I have contemplated quiting the dosing and going back to a little more dirty tank.
Anybody quit dosing and wish they hadn't?