Lou from Tropic Marin has really been out selling the new Tropic Marin approach to carbon dosing (See the MACNA talk: and the BRS series: ). How many of the reefers out there are using this system and does it work?
The basic gist is that instead of using carbon dosing to lower nutrients, you carbon dose constantly, and then if you need to: add nutrients to counteract the loss of nutrients caused by the dosing itself (these nutrients are usually bottled together in their other products). The idea they propose behind this is that growing bacteria is good food for corals, and that having a constant supply of bacteria should be the primary goal of carbon dosing, not nutrient lowering.
In my mind: this logic seems to make sense, and could be similar to dosing live phyto, but also suspiciously seems like a good way for TM to turn reefers who weren't dosing anything and had fine nutrient levels into paying customers.
So, what do you think? Do you use the TM carbon dosing regularly? Do you see good results from it?
The basic gist is that instead of using carbon dosing to lower nutrients, you carbon dose constantly, and then if you need to: add nutrients to counteract the loss of nutrients caused by the dosing itself (these nutrients are usually bottled together in their other products). The idea they propose behind this is that growing bacteria is good food for corals, and that having a constant supply of bacteria should be the primary goal of carbon dosing, not nutrient lowering.
In my mind: this logic seems to make sense, and could be similar to dosing live phyto, but also suspiciously seems like a good way for TM to turn reefers who weren't dosing anything and had fine nutrient levels into paying customers.
So, what do you think? Do you use the TM carbon dosing regularly? Do you see good results from it?