carbon dosing

Hello - My question is this-currently I am trying to optimize carbon dose timing - Right now I am dosing 1.6 ml of bacto balance and I feed 9:00, 12:00, 14:00, 16:00 a combo of pellets (morning) and then ROE and artic pods afternoon (automated) I essentially have it so that doses are broken...

Hello everyone, thank you for taking the time to read this, I feel as if I have been plagued by some invisible force limiting the growth and enjoyability of my tank. Turning desparate, and starting to converge on the idea that whatever I am fighting, must be bacterial. Some context to start...

Moving into my new condo so going to set up my brand new unused tank shown in my tank thread, which has now been sitting empty at my old LFS for 2 years (when I thought I was jumping back into the hobby head first) due to life's twists and turns. I'm trying to get my game plan in order for how...

For a variety of reasons, I have a high bio-load and low coral density at the moment. This means that nutirents are not absorbed as much as I'd experienced previously. On top of that, I had about 3 months where I barely paid attention to the tank, and the phosphate crept upwards to about...

Hello, I started a new tank on August 17th 2024 using Caribsea liferock as well as about 10lbs of Carib sea ocean direct sand and 5 lbs of miracle mud. I used bacteria and ammonia to cycle the tank which went great. I am carbon dosing the tank, initially I used elimi NP from TM after I added...

Hi, Rajdeep here from India & running a 1.5 years old 70 gallon Fish+Anemone tank (3x2x1.5ft)+Sump (no corals) with typically high bioload, however ample rocks, ceramic rings, some Matrix/denitrate, Chiller, skimmer, UV, Chaeto, Filter Pads are running in the sump. I feed hikari pellets twice &...

My overall system is 340gal and pretty heavily stocked, however I consistently dose Brightwell's 5X Nitrate and Phosphate to keep those from bottoming out entirely. Is there an upside to notching up my Nitrate+Phosphate dosing slightly, and then dosing carbon at the same time? Are there...

The reasons I'm updating the Vinegar and Vodka dosing charts are two-fold: 1. The ramp was unnecessarily slow. There was no perceived benefit to such a tedious ramp, and it led to reefers quitting because they thought carbon dosing didn't work. 2. The ramp did not scale up correctly...

So my tanks been fallow for nearly 2 months and I am having quite the noticeable bubble algae issue. I have been carbon dosing for 2 years and love it but I notice that some methods change a bit because of the added bacteria populations caused from carbon dosing. The issue and question is since...

Hello, I run a large 500 gallon system and have been having high nutrient problems. Right now I have them down to nitrates:30ppm and phosphate 0.2. I have no issues with algae blooms or anything like that and all coral/fish are happy and healthy but need to lower the levels. I installed a...

Hi everyone, I've been working on an acetate-based solution to simplify my reef supplementation over the past few weeks and would love some input (especially by Randy). Background I've made a solution containing 1 molar calcium acetate, 0.1 molar magnesium acetate, and trace strontium, barium...

I’ve seen this discussed a few times but I still have questions about switching carbon sources. My tank wb220 about 155-170gallon actual water volume has been running for an over a year and a half, it was started and cycled using media from my previous 9 year old 125g tank. I’ve overstocked it...

I've been vodka dosing for a few months. My nitrates went to zero but my phosphates remained around 0.25. I then started dosing nitrates, in hopes that phosphate would begin to drop. In the meantime my alkalinity spiked to 14 (I kept dosing 2-part, not knowing that the carbon dosing would also...

Hello, I'm trying to troubleshoot some interesting Hanna ULR Phosphate Checker readings that I've been receiving the past few days. Do Phosphate levels in reef tanks have 'Cycles' or level changes throughout the day? The reason I ask is because I'm doing carbon dosing in my reef tank and I've...

Hello, my tanks is 50Liter, is it okay if i add nopox 1/2 ml + brightwell reef biofuel 1/2ml?

Hello all, just curious if any of you have a go-to method that you use in order to skip or greatly reduce the severity of the ugly phase in your tank. Personally, I was overdosing micro-bacter clean in one of my first tanks for a while and never experienced an ugly phase. Do any of you start off...

@Hans-Werner, @Lou Ekus - does Nitribiotic contain the bacteria strain necessary for Reef Active / NP Bacto Pellets to work? Alternatively, is there another source containing that bacteria, if not that? I finished cycling a dry rock barebottom tank, and I need to get the good bacteria spreading...

With my last tank it took ages to get biopellets going: Two little fishies Bactiv8 was a failure for me. Zeobak seemed to take ages, maybe because of the barebottom? I now have 90G barebottom with newly cycled dry rock. What are the best products to introduce the bacteria needed for carbon...

The third nutrient is my theoretical thinking on nutrients and understanding of aquarium stability and balance. The third nutrient or Carbon is a nutrient that not often talked about and little is known of its function and effects to the other Nutrients in reef aquaria, not much is know to...

Hi. I have been doing vinegar doing for many years. I do it using a dosing pump. I could not find the vinegar brand that I regularly use. The one I got now is 4% acidity white distilled vinegar, just as the previous one, but I just noticed that it contains Sulfite 0.01%. Is that going cause...

I've had .3 phosphates for a while now and have been using a GFO reactor in a half stocked 7 year old crashed tank I inherited 4 months ago. I'm looking for other less harsh methods of nutrient export other than GFO. I've heard about refugiums and algae scrubbers and their mixed reviews. But...

My 120 gallon tank is running on ceramic and is a year old. I have about 20-10 ppm No3 and 0.1-0.05 ppm PO4 now. I think it's high for nitrate. I use MBR7 2-3 times a week but see no effect. Reef Actif one spoonful a week, brings the nitrate down to 10 and it goes back up. All4Reef - I add 25 ml...

My 120 gallon tank is running on ceramic and is a year old. I have about 20-10 ppm No3 and 0.1-0.05 ppm PO4 now. I think it's high for nitrate. I use MBR7 2-3 times a week but see no effect. Reef Actif one spoonful a week, brings the nitrate down to 10 and it goes back up. All4Reef - I add 25 ml...

This thread is aimed at discussing the potential of using Phytoplankton as a carbon dosing method and possibly fixing microbiology in a salt water tank during the process. The concept that led me to think that phytoplankton can be beneficial to a reef comes from nature, this is a process that...

I want to add a single channel doser, but can I combine Tropic Marin's carbon dosing with a Alk/Kalk dosing supplement? (Not sure if they will combine strangely and cause issues)