Vodka dosing week 3 YUCK

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

Vokda dosing? Man I have been out of the loop.

now why is it beneficial to dose vodka? You say you dose 200ml, your skimmer takes out 200ml...

To me it just sounds like your skimmer is taking out all the vodka

no my skimmer has taken out 200ml of skimate. i think total volume i have add of vodka is about 6ml since i started. Here is a quote from the article i am fallowing in my vodka dosing prosess

The addition of vodka/ethanol is thought to increase bacterial biomass. For this, vodka addition would result in bacterial growth and reproduction. During this process nutrients in the water (including NO3 and PO4) are taken up for the formation of new macromolecules that are needed in cell synthesis and viability. Due to this rapid growth and reproduction, NO3 and PO4 can drop quickly from detectable levels by most test kits on the market. The increased biomass of the bacteria leads to a notable increase in skimmate production, removing more waste than without vodka addition. The increased skimmate is thought to remove the bacteria or bacterial biproducts that have assimilated the NO3 and PO4 within the water column leading to NO3 and PO4 depletion.

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

insane....turning fish into drunkies...what is this world comin to??!!! lol...No ,good stuff..maybe someday we will all be dosing vodka

interesting the reason i said 200ml of vodka is because it was worded oddly in the description. Did you have a nitrate problem to begin with?

sorry about that. no i didnt have a nitrate problem i seen a fellow reefer of mine get great results doing it so i decided to jump on the band wagon