Basurami Ichika":1v0qlgml said:>...you need to skim heavily...
Is the decrease in N due to the extra skimming?
c-town":2lr2wrmp said:how much do you add per gal of salt water?
Basurami Ichika":1m3lt57y said:>...you need to skim heavily...
Is the decrease in N due to the extra skimming?
seamaiden":2j9dpi15 said:Dang... will any alcohol work,
or is it particular to vodka?
If so, does it matter what type of vodka (i.e. potato, grain, or other)?
And is this really particular as to the form of carbon?
seamaiden":5189g8m7 said:I honestly would have thought that the alcohol itself would be problematic, but in the "doses" you mention I can see that it wouldn't be.
:shock: Oh my God, that explains what went down in an old customer's tank of mine! They were a restaurant with a big saltwater tank in the entrance, and they were having problems with it after almost every happy hour. Discovered a regular (who was a little too regular) thought it would be funny to get the fish drunk, and all they got was cloudy water and dead. I figured the bloom was because of bacteria dying, and instead it very well may have been a bloom due to extra nutrients (she was a daiquiri lady). Sheesh, that must have been it.
seamaiden":28ghtwip said:Dang... will any alcohol work, or is it particular to vodka? If so, does it matter what type of vodka (i.e. potato, grain, or other)? And is this really particular as to the form of carbon?
Matt_":10lwewh0 said:seamaiden":10lwewh0 said:I honestly would have thought that the alcohol itself would be problematic, but in the "doses" you mention I can see that it wouldn't be.
:shock: Oh my God, that explains what went down in an old customer's tank of mine! They were a restaurant with a big saltwater tank in the entrance, and they were having problems with it after almost every happy hour. Discovered a regular (who was a little too regular) thought it would be funny to get the fish drunk, and all they got was cloudy water and dead. I figured the bloom was because of bacteria dying, and instead it very well may have been a bloom due to extra nutrients (she was a daiquiri lady). Sheesh, that must have been it.
It's likely that's what happened. People who slightly overdose initially report cloudy water that gets crystal clear after a couple days. If you go too far I suspect it would just crash the DO and kill everything.
Dawn":15l6cxp5 said:Matt- what were your nitrate readings in the beginning, what did you bring the reading down to, and how long did it take? Thanks