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I second that.That's all I have been using for carbon dosing for several years. I think plenty of other people use it too.
Does anyone still use the method of dosing vinegar anymore?
Here’s a dosing chart of that helps. These numbers are in ML
Note: the author’s seemed to have made a mistake scaling up the 25 gal column in this chart. This will be obvious by comparing the highest doses across the columns. The error will cause larger system owners to under dose their systems.
Correct. The scaling is weird. It's not necessarily a mistake, but I don't agree with it. I'm an author on that article, but I didn't add that chart. It was added as a conversion from a different article on vodka which started that scaling issue. I'm not sure if it was intentional for them, or a mistake.
I understand your hesitancy to conclude the intention behind the construction of this table.
From an engineering perspective, one would not scale up a bioreactor or a chemical reactor in this manner. A rookie mistake. So, in deference to your doubts about declaring the table construction a “mistake”, I will change my stance and say that the table scale up was done “incorrectly to maintain a consistent relationship between surface area or volume of the system or any part of the system”.
I certainly agree and have criticized this table many times in the past, despite my being one of the two authors on it, for that very reason:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/heavy-overdose-of-diy-nopox.397096/page-2#post-4968456
"Here's a discussion of vinegar dosing. IMO, the dosing ramp up in that article is excessively slow, and the scaling with tank size doesn't make sense to me, but it's a place to start:"
Takes time, took me 60mls in a 125 to get nitrates to drop.