And how often would you dose that and is that what you do with your tank? Would be an interesting experiment even though my nitrates so far have always been low

Hmm, I'm actually a factory trained water quality technician, however wastewater treatment and natural denitrification in live rock are two different environments. The books I mentioned above though, are wastewater management related. As soon as I dig them out, I'll start reading. Limnology will also give us some clues about natural anaerobic/anoxic zones, so those books need to come out too. Maybe I shoulda just bought some rock and shut up :)

not done reading this yet, but so far looks like an interesting article from Dr. Ron

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-0...ture/index.php

I remember hearing someone saying about dosing your tank with sugar but don't know how effective that would actually be or if that would work along the same lines as vodka. Rather use the vodka to get me drunk and not my fishes:mrgreen:

yes please
 

yes if you don't mind so your tank will get set up faster and you know what fish can make it to your new tank. :razz:

dosing vodka
 

be very careful with dosing vodka. it can crash your tank very quickly by providing too much nutrient to a certain strain of bacteria which will then start covering your rocks with slimey bacteria.

Zactly why I'm getting this going!!! :)

So this seems to answer some of the questions, while posing some new ones. Coraline growth and population of creatures within the rock can influence filtration capacity. Hmm. Tony, review the parts about "good rock" vs. "bad rock"....

Well don't know if I would actually go through with it cause so far everything in my tank is looking good and don't have much in the way of nitrates but always interesting to hear some of the different things people have tried and the reasons why


QUOTE=Chin_Lee;282682]be very careful with dosing vodka. it can crash your tank very quickly by providing too much nutrient to a certain strain of bacteria which will then start covering your rocks with slimey bacteria.[/quote]

Seems to make sense if the rock became encrusted with corals or coralline would have an effect.