I have a 29-gallon freshwater tank that I got bored of about 4 years ago. I've taken care of it well for the last 8 years but now I'm finally ready to jump into saltwater.
I've researched a ton and I have a general idea of what I want to do.
However, one of the new things I've seen is actually having to control nitrates to a much greater degree. I got away with having 10-30 ppm but corals especially SPS tend to require <2 ppm, no?
So then I figured I perform weekly 10 percent water changes but even that would be about 4 ppm (estimating my bioload). So then I looked into carbon dosing since that's more reasonable than a sump with a refugium considering this is only a 29-gallon tank.
When could I theoretically start dosing vodka into my tank? After the first couple of fish?
I've also seen that I could flatten the nitrate and phosphorous so low I create some devil spawn algae?
Again just general questions on carbon dosing or if carbon dosing would even be the right thing.
I've researched a ton and I have a general idea of what I want to do.
However, one of the new things I've seen is actually having to control nitrates to a much greater degree. I got away with having 10-30 ppm but corals especially SPS tend to require <2 ppm, no?
So then I figured I perform weekly 10 percent water changes but even that would be about 4 ppm (estimating my bioload). So then I looked into carbon dosing since that's more reasonable than a sump with a refugium considering this is only a 29-gallon tank.
When could I theoretically start dosing vodka into my tank? After the first couple of fish?
I've also seen that I could flatten the nitrate and phosphorous so low I create some devil spawn algae?
Again just general questions on carbon dosing or if carbon dosing would even be the right thing.