Vinegar and Rox Carbon?

[JUSKIDN]

I’m going to start vinegar dosing to help combat my nitrates. Running about 16 now but Jumps to 25. In the next week. Wanting to know do I need to stop my rox Carbon in my reactor?

Thanks in advance

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

No, acetate (vinegar) will not bind to GAC from water.

 

[JUSKIDN]

No, acetate (vinegar) will not bind to GAC from water.

I know distilled white vinegar but was wondering if the ROX carbon would bind to it and filter it out?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I know distilled white vinegar but was wondering if the ROX carbon would bind to it and filter it out?

That’s what I answered: it won’t.

 

[JUSKIDN]

That’s what I answered: it won’t.

Thank you. Is this the best remedy for lowering nitrates? I’m doing very frequent water changes and its just getting to be too much and costly with tropic marlin salt mix. I do have a skimmer and running. GFO and the Rox Carbon. Also have a C02 reactor connected to skimmer. No more room in sump for more equipment. Im changing filter sock every few days. Here’s the plan I found online I was going to attempt with vinegar.

 

[Jmp998]

What is your phosphate? If it is very low (you say you are using GFO), then vinegar may not have much impact on your nitrates since they are consumed in tandem.

 

[JUSKIDN]

My current readings yesterday

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

There are many effective ways to reduce nitrate:
growing macroalgae
organic carbon dosing (including vinegar, ethanol, biopellets, etc.)
denitrators
deep sand beds
denitrifying media
etc.

This has more;

Nitrate in the Reef Aquarium - REEFEDITION

Nitrate is an ion that has long dogged aquarists. It is typically formed in aquaria through the digestion of foods, and in many aquaria it builds up and can be difficult to keep at natural levels. In the past, many aquarists performed water changes with nitrate reduction as one of the primary...

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[JUSKIDN]

There are many effective ways to reduce nitrate:
growing macroalgae
organic carbon dosing (including vinegar, ethanol, biopellets, etc.)
denitrators
deep sand beds
denitrifying media
etc.

This has more;

Nitrate in the Reef Aquarium - REEFEDITION

Nitrate is an ion that has long dogged aquarists. It is typically formed in aquaria through the digestion of foods, and in many aquaria it builds up and can be difficult to keep at natural levels. In the past, many aquarists performed water changes with nitrate reduction as one of the primary...

www.reefedition.com

Thank you so much. So can you clarify on this vinegar chart that the amount of ml dosing is weekly after the first week?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Thank you so much. So can you clarify on this vinegar chart that the amount of ml dosing is weekly after the first week?

Despite being one of the authors on the article that chart came from, I do not agree with it. It scales oddly with tank size and ramps up unnecessarily slowly.


What size aquarium are you dosing?

 

[JUSKIDN]

Despite being one of the authors on the article that chart came from, I do not agree with it. It scales oddly with tank size and ramps up unnecessarily slowly.


What size aquarium are you dosing?

I have a waterbox 60.2 but the specs say that 54.5 gallons is actually the volume.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I’d start at 10 mL per day and see what happens over a week. Spread that dosing out over the daytime.

 

[JUSKIDN]

I’d start at 10 mL per day and see what happens over a week. Spread that dosing out over the daytime.

Then I should taper down if nitrates drop and maintain with weekly dosing?

 

[JUSKIDN]

Then I should taper down if nitrates drop and maintain with weekly dosing?