Vinegar dosing vs vodka dosing
 

Is there a difference between the 2 other than cost?

Vinegar or vodka do the same thing.
If you have bio pellets then you don't need to dose anything
As bio pellets do the same thing too

If it's the same thing...drink the vodka give the vinegar to the fishies.

I like that idea way better.

+1 to that! LOL!

I'm hoping the bio pellets work as I tried vodka before and was really not into the "routine"... I like the set it and forget ease of what the pellets can promise...

If I remember, vodka tends to be more potent so vinegar allows you better fine tune and works better for smaller tank volumes. There are some reports that vodka dosing may increase cyano...

Pellets work great. I am gone 3wks at a time and they really helped my tank. And I notice when the reactor starts to get low as the glass gets more algae on it sooner

I dose vinegar by day because it drops pH but it doesn't promote cyano and vodka at night to prevent mono culture bacteria.
I gave up on the pellets, the dosing works great, just go slow.
vodka is about 8x more potent than vinegar.

the pellets I don't know if its working since i have a huge Hair algae problem and with a sea hare who isnt eating it. **** me off

I used algafix marine to remove my hair algae, did not hurt anything in tank,
got 90 % of hair and I removed the rest by hand and to my delight it eradicated ALL of my bubble algae and it was a lot.
I got the hair algae while running pellets.