Contained Carbon dosing in freshwater aquarium.

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Update.
10 grams wet, .5 TBS + .6 tsp= .83 table spoons. Fed daily.
Nitrates are 15 ppm, vs 10 ppm tap water.
PH 7.6,

 

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One day of prefilter collection, 6 grams out to ten grams in. Two layers of med weight poly fill quilting back.

 

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So, are you switching over to an algae scrubber instead of the carbon dosing?

Also, as I understand it, keeping the nitrates low is only part of the reason water changes are needed. I understand that they are also needed to keep things like the TDS under control. Do either of these methods deal with that aspect? If not, can you please explain the reasoning behind using the carbon dosing or the algae scrubber in place of water changes? Are you just focusing on the nitrates?

Thanks for posting all of your results!

My Tap water can be 12ppm nitrate. So anything that lowers it is great.

I use an ORP meter, to dictate water changes. It's experimental , but as long as their throwing out babies, and not trying too kill each other over , the last Hikari pellet. It's as good as it gets. The daphnia's in the sump need decent water quality to reproduce as well.

 

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Algae growing in tank, gets grazed on by by all the fish.

 

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Update.
10 grams wet, .5 TBS + .6 tsp= .83 table spoons. Fed daily.
Nitrates are 15 ppm, vs 10 ppm tap water.
PH 7.6,

1 cube is 3 grams,apx

 

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1 cube is 3 grams,apx

Referance, 3 grams dry, soaked until soggy, = 10 grams, so it would be about 3 cube size, maybe a little less since 35% protein.

 

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Daphnia harvest, scrubber cleaned of algae, which gets fed to my minnow tank.
Nitrates 14ppm
PH 7.5
Last wc 8 days ago.

 

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latest growth, 1 wc later.