sugar dosing, anyone?

[dartpro]

many articles were written about vodka dosing, seems to be effective.
how about sugar dosing, anyone using this method?

[olliefb]

tried that before and made my skimmer crazy pero itinigil ko. i dont like the idea of dosing something i cant measure or test.

[random]

Uhm... Doesn't that sound crazy? Why can't you measure sugar? With regards to you dosing sugar into your tank, what do you test for? Sugar is just a carbon source. When you dose carbon, you are stimulating the growth of bacterial biomass that would consume the nutrients in your tank. To know whether your dosing is working or not, you therefore test for the usual things you test for: ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, phosphates, ph, alk, etc. (but particularly nitrates and phosphates). I fail to see why you can't test for those.

[Xjers]

hehehe baka magka diabetes na yung mga fish mo bro mahirap na mag insulin shot hahaha...mahal yun hahaha. vodka dosing na lng mura pa at 20 petot last for a months/year na. depende sa dosage mo as prescribe by a vet hahaha kidding. up to you kung gaano ka taas nitrates mo.

[waterlou]

mahal na asukal bro hehe. vodka ka nalang.

eto link:
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-08/nftt/index.php

[random]

1 kilo of sugar is about Php 60.00 nowadays. About a liter of Vodka would cost you around Php 200 at the least. And those would produce about the same number of doses. So, which is more expensive?

If you are going to be afraid that sugar dosing will make your livestocks diabetic, then shouldn't you be afraid that Vodka dosing will make your livestocks intoxicated?

I'm not one to advocate sugar dosing over Vodka dosing, but guys... come on...!

[waterlou]

vodka ka nalang bro, 1 shot sa tank and 1 shot sayo hehe.

[dartpro]

i started dosing sugar half a teaspoon for the first week and increased it to about a teaspoon and i'm on my third week. skimmer is going crazy coz i'm getting really dark and smelly skimmate. my nitrate is down from 40 to between 10 to 20 now and my rock and sidewall glass started clearing out of algae. my only problem is lately water's getting 'cloudy' after dosing a teaspoon of sugar, i'll stop dosing and after a day or two it get very very clear. my fishes and corals are doing well, in fact i observed better extension and coloration. any RP member with the same experience?

[random]

The water cloudiness you are experiencing may be due to bacterial bloom. You may be overdosing. Just cut back on the amount of sugar that you dose, probably from 1 teaspoon back to half.

[Xjers]

@dartpro - thanks for the update bro keep it up...who knows maybe it's a better way than vodka kasi may coloration effect. hehehe.

last week lng ako nag start nag dose ng vodka 5ml. I haven't check my NO3.

[VOYAGER]

[Xjers]

[dartpro]

[waterlou]

try mo maglagay ng activated carbon

[daddybogs]

mga bro

ingat lang sa pag doze ng vodka,.. ako kasi after 3weeks nag start na mag bleach yun brains,mushrooms ko kaya tinigil ko agad na overdose ata sayang corals

kaya turbo calcium na lang gamit ko na kent brand same effect lang sa vodka so far masaya naman LS ko from may own experience lang.

daddybos