Does anyone have experience with nitrate dosing? If you do, what are you using as your nitrate source?
The idea behind nitrate dosing is have a balanced tank according to the Redfield Ratio.
Redfield ratio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The problem I am trying to solve is that I have very high phosphate but 0 nitrate. I am currently carbon dosing with vodka which is supposed to encourage bacteria growth which consumes both nitrate and phosphate. However, since nitrate is the limiting nutrient (0 ppm), vodka dosing is not as effective to reduce phosphate. The same result may be achieved by dosing ammonia but this can be riskier since ammonia is toxic to fish and inverts.
The idea behind nitrate dosing is have a balanced tank according to the Redfield Ratio.
Redfield ratio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The problem I am trying to solve is that I have very high phosphate but 0 nitrate. I am currently carbon dosing with vodka which is supposed to encourage bacteria growth which consumes both nitrate and phosphate. However, since nitrate is the limiting nutrient (0 ppm), vodka dosing is not as effective to reduce phosphate. The same result may be achieved by dosing ammonia but this can be riskier since ammonia is toxic to fish and inverts.