Using home brew wine as a carbon source

[Nik Mason]

Hi All,
recently i was allowed to pick black grapes from a fellow allotment holders plot here in Cardiff.

After squeezing the grapes i had 25 lts of juice to try and make wine.
Suffice to say don’t buy any wine from me, it was awful.

I have been using vinegar as a carbon source and I seem to have the same results as when I use nopox

So I thought I may as well use the awful wine, I have 25 lts to get rid of.

I dose 50ml a day into a 700 ltr tank.

I have been doing this for just over a month now and to me my tank has not changed from when I was using vinegar

Nitrates Are 5 and phosphate is about .05 - 1 [ i don't mind these levels ]

I have not seen any adverse reaction from the corals, fish or invertebrates.

I have a small amount of GHA on some of the rocks but my emerald crabs keep it under control.

So I was wondering what else do reefers use to dose their tanks that may be considered non-conventional?

When I found out about vodka and vinegar I though it was April fools day, pull the other one.


Regards,

Nik

 

[Mark Derail]

I bet it would make for awesome Sangria though. That's what I do with my friend's homemade red wine.

@Randy Holmes-Farley is our guru on things chemistry. Honestly I would be more worried about the other ingredients present in the wine that might affect something.

Assuming your wine doesn't have any added chemicals during it's making.

 

[Nik Mason]

Hi Mark,
thanks for the comment.
No just grape juice, sugar and some yeast to get it going,
Regards,
Nik

 

[redfishbluefish]

So high phosphates.....did you use diammonium phosphate to "boost" the yeast during fermentation?

 

[Nik Mason]

Hi R&B fish,
no additives, just bad wine making.
Regards,
Nik