Carbon dozing

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Hi
I am starting liquid carbon dozing in my tank and my question is should I turn off my UV sterilizer to prevent killing bacteria?
 
Because it’s much better than running GFO or refugem .
In carbon dosing you have more colorful, corals and fast growing
And you can control the sweet spot of nitrate and phosphate
But I don’t recommend it for the tank that is not stable
 
Because it’s much better than running GFO or refugem .
In carbon dosing you have more colorful, corals and fast growing
And you can control the sweet spot of nitrate and phosphate
But I don’t recommend it for the tank that is not stable

When I read the subject line I assumed you were dosing carbon in the form of ethanol to yourself :)

Carbon dosing feeds bacteria that consume Nitrates.
It doesn't do much for phosphate and any effect on coral color is anecdotal.

You must be running a skimmer.
 
what are your current tank parameters? Carbon dosing can be very tricky. I actually think it’s more difficult then running a fuge and gfo. Gfo is tricky as a lot of folks use recommend dose on packaging and it can strip phosphates way to fast. I only say this cause I had some trouble with carbon dosing cause I bottomed out my nitrate. My tank runs at 10 and about o.15-0.2 phosphate. It took a tool on some of my LPS my sps seemed to take it much better. What product will you be using?
 
Rea sea no3po4-x
And I just started dosing carbon 2.5 ml per day and my no3 is 10 ppm and po4 is 0.1
I am going to test them next week and see how’s going on
 

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