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I found my own way to break away from carbon dosing and it was the best move that I've made.Thank you for the insight and advice. I'm at that point now. I am getting consistent 0 readings for my nitrate and phosphate tests. Im even dosing under the recommended amount for NoPox (5ml/day for a ~130g total volume tank). Recommended amount is close to 10ml/day. Only reason I dropped the amount was becasue my skimmer was going crazy.
Good advice though and a thought process I will look into changing. Currently tweaking the dose and trying to get readable amounts of nitrate/phosphate before adding corals.
Have not had a new cyano bloom in almost two years.
I've been using Vibrant to knock out bubble algae and it does contain some carbon, but I'm feeding more and my nitrates are still holding at about .7 ppm.
Carbon dosing is fuel for good and bad bacteria.
If your on rock bottom zero, then there's no need to carbon dose. I'd rather be a little high on phos. and nitrates than zeroed out.
EDIT:
I do run an GFO reactor to control phosphates, but I have a need in that area.
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