Carbon Dosing!

[@queencityreefs]

Great episode. Beautiful corals. Those speak for themselves. 👌🔥💯✌️

[@5280Reefer]

Thank you, You have some beautiful ones yourself!

[@cesarjuarez2066]

Antidotal, but my tank suffered from bad cyano and sps rtn’ing. Nitrates 20 and phos .1. Nothing looked good. Dosed carbon and had a bacterial bloom. Cyano disappeared in a few days. Tank has looked clean and better! Sps now have polyp extension. Been dosing for 2 - 3 weeks now.

[@5280Reefer]

Nice! our tanks can become carbon limited and cause many issues just take it slow and test often.

[@ChristopherLecky]

Salt water aquariums are interesting id love get one eventually but in terms of my learning curve I'm probably around two years away from attempting it....nice set up though..

[@Reefnow]

Great video

[@5280Reefer]

Thanks for the visit!

[@astinamama1_]

I like your aquarium, corals are wonderful. Wish you success❤. You deserve it🫶🏼🫀🤲

[@5280Reefer]

Thank you very much!

[@gummybears3462]

What do you recommend I should begin with? I have a 140 gallons and struggling with nitrates and phosphate.

[@5280Reefer]

Get 250ml of vodka and add a teaspoon of sugar to it then mix it up, with that mix dose 2ml at night for a month and do weekly testing and log to see your trend. Adjust by 1ml at most per day do not do any large adjustments.

[@johngraves2185]

Benthic succession is a thing, but it’s not going to happen from bottled bacteria, which 99% are virtually the same short lived bacteria. Biodiversity doesn’t come from bottles and you’re better off getting sand and/or rubble from another system to increase it. Also, carbon dosing should probably happen during the day when organic are being “processed” and there’s enough o2 available, dosing at night could raise co2 levels or lower o2 putting animals at risk.

[@simonlockley-evans3925]

"Organics being processed" is only part of the story. We test for inorganic No3 and Po4. It's those compounds that are used in bacterial cell assembly. Predominantly SAR11 the most abundant plankton in the ocean. This micobe also happens to be corals' favourite source of pelagic nutrition. Bacteria do not just go around eating inorganic NO3 and PO4. They are not nutrients.

[@MACNTOSFAM]

i dig your explanation on carbon dosing. i personally have never done it for the years i’ve been in this hobby. i opted to bacteria dose. but it may be something i can opt for in my next build years down the road. bottled bacteria can be costly

[@5280Reefer]

Thank you, hope it shed some light on the difference.

[@astinamama1_]

🌊👌👌👌

[@AMC-SQUATCHER]

You add 250 ml (1 quarter of a liter) of vodka in a month? Or did you mean 25 ml daily? 250 ml can't be correct? I dose around a capful which is equivalent to 6 ml/day on my 125 gallon Waterbox.

[@5280Reefer]

The mix I make is 250ml vodka and a spoon of sugar. so about 8.5ml a day

[@rhombifer566]

👍🏻👍🏻 carbon, dusting saved my aquarium

[@rhombifer566]

It really did !!!!

[@5280Reefer]

I would love to know in what way it did that for you!

[@rhombifer566]

Had high phosphates nothing was working, including doing lots of water changes. Reduce feeding start using Elma NP it did lower phosphates not nitrates too much but lowered phosphates, but secondary benefit of the squirrel on the tank looks beautiful growing never looks so good

[@rhombifer566]

Coral 🪸 not squirrel 🐿️ lol 😂