Dosing Bacteria pros and cons?

[Ed Hahn]

I have to admit I have heard talk of people dosing Brightwell Bacter 7 and Prodebo. I was wanting to hear feed back from those that have. Is there any negative side affects besides your tank possibly being too clean? I was told to shut my skimmer down a few hours after initial dose of Bacteria. I already jumped on the boat and bought Brightwell Bacter 7 and biofuel. I was just hoping for some structure things to look for.

Thx in Advance,
Ed

 

[Curtswearing]

Ed,

I'm not sure how this differs from Zeovit or VSV (Vodka, sugar, vinegar) dosing. I would imagine you would look for the same things like a massive bacteria bloom or extended lightening of your SPS corals.

 

[Ed Hahn]

Good so far....

Ed,

I'm not sure how this differs from Zeovit or VSV (Vodka, sugar, vinegar) dosing. I would imagine you would look for the same things like a massive bacteria bloom or extended lightening of your SPS corals.

Curt,
I have started the experimental process. I am using Bacter 7 and Reefbiofuel. I am not sure if I spelled the listed right. You are right on the money as far as Vodka (carbon source). My water clarity has improved. My concern is that my corals will bleach because of too drastic of a change. No bleaching as of yet. Everything looks good.

 

[Skimmy]

the trick with bacteria, as i think zeovite, elos, fauna marin, prodibio, VSV, and others have shown us, is to move slowly.
essentially what you are doing ed is introducing something into your reef that is competing with the zooxanthellae in the coral so that the pigment is more noticable, the obvious downfall is that you can kill all of the zooxanthellae by starving it out with the bacteria if your not careful, hence why you are also adding all those foods for the corals, and foods for the bacteria on a daily/weekly basis with most bacterial regimes.

my brother in law is experimenting with a bacteria so powerful that it doubles it's colony size every 11 minutes, and has to live in a tri-carbon media that also provides it with constant food. it is a voracious bacteria that can cycle fresh live rock in a couple of days, and it produces an effluent (it lives in a large home made media reactor) that is acidic enough to melt calcium like a CArx, so you have to set it up to do just that...pretty interesting to say the least.

 

[CarlaW]

Please pardon me for my ignorance regarding this method, but is this something we are trying duplicate that happens in nature, or is this method a man made deal trying to get our corals to look pretty??

 

[lvsuckerfish]

I dosed Macrobat & and loved it the water never changed as I always had clear water but the coloration of my corals did get alot better. I only did Macrobat and not the biofuel. I dosed according to the bottles instructions. with great results.are you avail.

 

[lvsuckerfish]

what I plan on using next is the zeo stones in a reactor I will build a DIY reactor for these. with to Maxijets a 400 and a 1200 and the 1200 will come on for 10mins a day to flush the bacteria into the system.

 

[Red C Aquarium]

With the brightwell products , they recommend coral restor and coral amino to follow up the biofuel and bacter.

We dont use brightwell now , but we sell it here and never heard anything but good .

Good luck Ed.

ARSA

 

[Myteemouse]

Sound like a system where you have to buy like 5 products to get what you want and keep your reef happy..
I will keep it simple and not dose anything
Just my .02
(if it aint broke, don't fix it)

 

[lvsuckerfish]

I understand but most that dose these products are sps dom tanks, which is the reason I did dose reactor and all for my system. for lps softie tanks this is not a product I would want to dose. people can and do use other products with it just like peple that use Lugol's for blues i like more of a natural looking tank but still want the ULNS for everything to thrive. and growth rates were alot better. when I dosed

 

[roscoe]

I just started the MB7 on Sunday along with vodka. I do notice my sand is more white looking and the tank is a tad clearer. I have 11 more days of the introduction phase and lower the dosing of the MB7 to once a week for the stable maintenance phase. It is hard to say right now we shall see in a month or 2 of dosing this how everything turns out. I am using vodka instead of the Biofuel. I opted for this route because it is cheaper and IMO all biofuel is just another carbon source just like vodka.

 

[lvsuckerfish]

very true but I think Bio Fuel is safer to over dose then vodka is but this is were experience comes in not for a newbie to do all this dosing.

 

[roscoe]

I've been dosing vodka for years now. I under dose with the vodka anyhow.

 

[trido]

I find that dosing does have its benefits for sure, whether it be simple iodone, VSV, aminos etc.. But, its one more daily chore I have to be diligent about. Ive just gone back to the basics.