OK to carbon dose with Vibrant?

[Hal3134]

My Nitrate is 25-50 ppm and Phosphate is a sky high 1.0. I've been dosing Vibrant for about 6 weeks and it's done great things for getting rid of various troublesome algae, but I want to get my nitrate and phosphate down. Carbon dosing seems like the natural solution. Will carbon dosing mess with the Vibrant or the results of the Vibrant?

 

[UWC]

Totally fine

 

[dank reefer]

Maybe a 20-25% water change can help out as well.

Vibrant is a great product as long as you go slow with it and have patience.

 

[Hal3134]

Oh, I agree. It’s made great progress on my algae. But I don’t think it is designed to do anything for nitrate or phosphate. Or at least that is my understanding.

 

[bsr2430]

Vibrant is safe with carbon dosing. I’ve done it countless times in the past.

Water changes are the way to go with this.

Also, use GFO.

 

[Uncle99]

Yup, carbon dosing two years now, Vibrant at 5 weeks.
No problems yet.