Carbon dozing
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moosevandyke
Never a dull moment in keeping a reef tank.
Quick question why are you carbon dosing?
nasa
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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
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
gbroadbridge
2500 Club Member
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.
moosevandyke
Never a dull moment in keeping a reef tank.
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?
