Carbon Dosing - Poll

[FishyDP]

I am curious to hear opinions regarding carbon dosing. Do you carbon dose?..why or why not? Do you use vodka, sugar, vinegar..or a combination? Manual dosing, automated? How much and how often?

I have personally had good success dosing vodka to keep nutrient levels at bay in a 125g system keeping many zoas and various lps over the last 9 months. I am taking the dive into sps very soon, and am wondering myself if carbon dosing is a good long term solution to keep nitrates/phosphates at low levels.

 

[Ron Reefman]

I dosed Ascorbic Acid (vitamin C) as a test, more for other reasons than to dose carbon. But when I had used up a bottle and saw no real difference in the tank, I stopped. After stopping, I again saw no change in the tank. So I don't dose it any more.