Dosing Vodka.....Who is coming with me?

[gnashty]

After much thought and reading up on the subject I think I am going to start a Vodka dosing regimen beginning in February. I am going out of town later this month and dont want to screw up my regimen.

I was wondering if anyone else was planning this or on the fence about it. It would be fun to start a thread with a few of us starting this around the same time and share our results.

I was also thinking of trying to automate this once I get the steady daily dose down. I have an extra dosing pump, or is this a bad idea? Who actually doses vodka everyday by hand? Seems like it could be tedious and hard to keep up with.

 

[jamescook]

I'm sticking with beer dosing, myself

 

[merkywater]

Gary I may be going this route as well, still on the fence as my corals have made a dramatic bounce back since switching salts and upping my water changes but still feel they may be even better with dosing vodka, as I have lots of fish. As far as the dosing pump goes I think that is definitely the way to go so you want forget any or miss any doses. Let me know when you decide bro!

 

[dubaygv]

Where have you been reading about the dosing rates? I have been considering it myself, although no one in my area that I know of does it. Tagging along and thinking about it.

 

[ralph atl]

10 ml per day syringe....by hand...lol

 

[KrisDeitz]

Gary i also want to try this. I have really stepped up to try to auto everything as well

 

[liverock27]

barry_keith;719769 wrote: I got some of the Red Sea NoPoX for Christmas, and I can't decide if I want to use it.

I picked up a bottle a few weeks ago. I have only dosed it 3 times now, but I am interested to see how it works.

 

[gnashty]

mysterybox;719775 wrote: 10 ml per day syringe....by hand...lol

And you still run GFO right Ralph? My GFO reactor is a POS constantly getting clogged. Cant get it to tumble with the pump at fill blast..

dubaygv;719774 wrote: Where have you been reading about the dosing rates? I have been considering it myself, although no one in my area that I know of does it. Tagging along and thinking about it.

 

[itsamyheff]

I would not do automation on dosing. You got to monitor and adjust to often. Worked great for me when I was using it. Colors where bright, for sure. I got to the point I did not need to anymore.

Edit: follow it to the letter. reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-08/nftt/index.php

 

[jbdreefs]

I may try in February... I'll have to do more reading up on it. I read the article posted the other day and it peaked my interest.

 

[jcampbell]

I have been thinking about it also. I'm still unsure of how to dose properly but I would definitely do it to bring more color out in my corals.

 

[dme330i]

4.5 ml/day on my 93g by hand

1.5L of seachem matrix

young tank - only 2.5 months

no gfo and no uv

Will definitely dose it in my 330g when it is up and running. Will also use 4+liters of matrix.

 

[jcampbell]

Does anyone know if I can just dose once a week?

 

[1mbrews8]

You need to do it daily.. perferrably twice a day, as in split the dose up to make it more consistent..

Did help me tremendously- got rid of a crap ton of hair algae. I got up to 4 mill liters a day and cut it in half the other week.

I am dosing two milliliters a day on about 300 gallons of water and everything looks pretty darn good.