wodka

[rabagley]

If you're looking for a source of liquid carbon, I've seen vinegar recommended fairly often as a carbon supplement for Kalk. The vodka appears to be used to eliminate a limiting nutrient for bacteria (carbon), presumably to increase skimmable bacterial populations and allow the trapped nutrients to be more easily removed from the aquarium.

I would guess that if you don't mind the inevitable oxygen consumption as the alcohol or acedic acid is metabolized, either one may shift the nutrient balance in this way. The only problem I have with actually doing it is that there are a lot of assumptions that I'd want resolved before attempting to predict the effect that dosing a carbon source will have on the tank. Assumptions like, "Is carbon a limiting nutrient in reef tanks?" Things that need experimental verification to characterize when the carbon is more likely to make things better than worse.

In general, the rule I follow is to not dose anything unless I can take a measurement to (1) be sure I need it (2) be sure I'm dosing enough of it and (3) know when I might be dosing too much of it. I just wouldn't have that information for carbon. Yet.

Regards,
Ross

 

[pikkio81]

how much wodka per liter?

it is gradually, I started with 0.1 ml (milliliter) in my aquarium and now 0.6, I think I will stop to 0,8. but you can see in your the maximum.
many people arrive to bacterical prolification and there is like a white liquid in aquarium, but in my opinion this is no good for aquarium.
see you
bye bye

 

[pikkio81]

rabagley I' m translating your topic. see you later

 

[pikkio81]

vineger with kalk wather adds more kalk in the tank but also more sediment, so in Italy we don't thik this is useful, instead vodka brings carbon and reduces nitrate and phosfate. The only thing is that sometimes it happens that wather snails die. But really nobody have tried to put some vodka in the aquarium?