Sugar in a FOWLR

prime311

prime311

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Updated log:
Total water volume 175 Gallons
Day 1: 30 Nitrate 1/2 Teaspoon
Day 2: 1/2 Teaspoon
Day 3: 20 Nitrate 3/4 Teaspoon
Day 4: 3/4 Teaspoon
Day 5: 3/4 Teaspoon
Day 6: 15 Nitrate 3/4 Teaspoon
Day 7: 3/4 Teaspoon
Day 8: 3/4 Teaspoon
Day 9: 10 Nitrate 3/4 Teaspoon
Day 10: 1 Teaspoon
Day 11: 1 Teaspoon
Day 12: 5 Nitrate 1 Teaspoon
 
prime311

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For the first week it pulled out a lot, like 5 gallons worth of wet skimming. Now its calmed down, but what it pulls out is especially nasty and I've needed to change the filter bag that my overflows go into more often. I need to clean the skimmer out now, its pretty gunked up and i just cleaned it like 10 days ago. Also, my last water change was 3 weeks ago where previously I'd been changing about 10% weekly.
 
hammerhed7

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I have never tried dosing the tank, but I have put vodka, sugar and lemonade into myself while I do my waterchanges.
I have been hearing quite alot about sugar dosing recently, I would expect the sugar would just break down but I wonder if anything added from the refining process would be left behind that could accumulate.
 
timbodmb

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I have a 12 gal HT tank that an anemone just died in... Nitrates are at 30 ppm- I'm going to sprinkle 1/16 tsp on the bio wheel and see what happens.
 
srfisher17

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Originally Posted by timbodmb
http:///forum/post/2653439
I have a 12 gal HT tank that an anemone just died in... Nitrates are at 30 ppm- I'm going to sprinkle 1/16 tsp on the bio wheel and see what happens.
Good experiment. From what I've learned, you should use about that amount every other day and expect some time for results; although it worked for me very quickly. BTW; I don't think it will work without a skimmer, at least from what I've read.
 
timbodmb

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Hmmm, Yeah there is no skimmer... Although I have mechanical/chemical filtration too... maybe it will be enough to trap the particles.
 
prime311

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It will work without a skimmer, but since it removes oxygen from the water I wouldn't suggest it(the skimmer helps oxygenate your water). Also, the water can get cloudy from the buildup of aenoribc bacteria, and without a skimmer I don't now how nasty it could get so again I'd probably advise against it.
 
timbodmb

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I really have nothing to lose, no fish in there to be bothered. I've tested trates in the tank today, and not really a noticeable difference... Maybe 5ppm less? wo now we are at 25ppm (in the middle of a color, so hard to tell)
 
nietzsche

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great thread guys. i was doing vodka before on my 28, but i no longer have it setup.
what type of sugar are you guys using? would it work if you used splenda?
 
srfisher17

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Originally Posted by nietzsche
http:///forum/post/2655482
great thread guys. i was doing vodka before on my 28, but i no longer have it setup.
what type of sugar are you guys using? would it work if you used splenda?
Just curious, why would you want to?
 
nietzsche

nietzsche

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want to what? are you asking what my purpose would be to use sugar dosing? or are you asking why i would want to use the splenda sugar???
 
kjr_trig

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Originally Posted by nietzsche
http:///forum/post/2655613
want to what?
What he is asking is why would you want to use Splenda, it's not like sugar is an exotic, expensive, difficult to find item.....It's not slenda sugar btw, splenda is 100% sugar free, they don't call it artificial sweetner for nothing.
 
timbodmb

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Oh my gosh people... put the claws away. Anywho, my trates are down to 20ppm with no water change... I'm going to sprinkle more today, and follow in a couple days.
 
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