Is it OK to dose Vodka and run an UV ?

[Casey8]

Originally Posted by Titus99

Why not just turn off uv. Keep it ready in case of outbreak and change your practices. If your fish are healthy you shouldn't have to worry about ick. Your uv also kills benificial pods which is a food sorce so you don't have to feed as much.

You said that your carefully monitoring your vodka dose so why not carefully monitor your feeding

I only feed the fish twice a day with a mix of mysis, brine shrimp and pellets. Very little but I make sure everybody have a little share of it, nothing left over after 1 minute. I rinse the frozen food very well but still get nitrate and phosphate, don't know where I get it from

[Cal_stir]

Originally Posted by Casey8

I know I feed my fish too much but I don't like to torture them either, I want them to be able to fully enjoy their life in my small tank. Phosphate and nitrate are the reason I need to do something about it. I had tried bio pellets for 6 months and it had wiped out more than 3/4 of my sps corals from bleaching them. I have been dosing Vodka for about a month now and I am watching it very carefully to see if anything goes wrong with my coral. But so far so good, they are all coloring up more nice than before. If bio pellets is the only way that I can set up an UV again because it holds bacteria in the reactor like Cal_stir said, then maybe I have to try it one more time with those "scary" pellets.

recirculating biopellet reactors are entering the market,Reefdynamics is making one, I have built one and have just got it up and running, you can control how much aquarium water goes thru it and thus prevent total stripping of nutrients from the water.

[phi delt reefer]

Originally Posted by Cal_stir

recirculating biopellet reactors are entering the market,Reefdynamics is making one, I have built one and have just got it up and running, you can control how much aquarium water goes thru it and thus prevent total stripping of nutrients from the water.

cal can you post some pics of the unit. i was looking at building one from a broken phosban reactor.