noodlenugs Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 would anybody mind pointing me to a good read on the goods and bads of vodka dosing...just curious of the benfits and drawbacks...Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cswanson83 Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 would anybody mind pointing me to a good read on the goods and bads of vodka dosing...just curious of the benfits and drawbacks...Thanks in advance Why would you dose vodka? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwoller Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 Because fish want to drink as much as us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transmatt Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 Go on rc and look up past issues of reefkeeping magizne their is a decent article there. Not to mention my brothers tank is pictured in the article as well. M)be last aug? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southstar066 Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 I was dosing vodka for 10months on the solana. I think it was the cause of the mini crash that I am slowly recovering from. But when I was doing it, I loved it. Clean clear water, no algea. But there are some drawbacks. I think all in all the same results can be achieved with good husbandry. here is the article I started with, http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-08/nftt/index.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transmatt Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 Yep thats the artice. As far as my brothers tank goes when he upgraded to a 3ft cube he also had a mini crash. He stopped dosing completely for about a month as he did a slow tank swap and lost some sps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooked Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 I added that link to the pinned thread Advanced Topics in the General Reefkeeping forum I agree with southstar that you can achieve the same results with good husbandry. Besides, I'd rather drink the vodka. :shots: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transmatt Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 The biggest thing my brother raved about was the intensity/drastic change in color in his sps. He had some amazing results as far as corals coloring up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puffdragon Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 This works well if you have an older tank and have not been good at using RO/DI water. Will remove phosphates and nitrates which are tied up in the rock with out cooking the rock. With that being said, you will need a good skimmer and should ramp up very slowly. I had a very bad hair algae problem and was able to get rid of it using this method. The rock in my tank is several years old and I did not use RO/DI water fro the first 3-4 years. I now have and use RO/DI water and used the vodka method for about 10 months. I slowly tapered off the use of vodka once the hair algae was gone for about a month. Read all the information you can about this before you begin as there can be a lot of issues. I would remember one other thing. I think it is better to keep the dosage down and take longer to remove the problem than to have a crash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy73 Posted July 8, 2009 Report Share Posted July 8, 2009 Zeo supplies get expensive!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cletus Posted July 14, 2009 Report Share Posted July 14, 2009 http://www.melevsreef.com/vodka_dosing.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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