WRT bacteria dosing, I hear you. Not many of us (me included) really have a good grasp on what is in all these bottles. I regard them all as just nitrifiers. I will include a link to a study thread and maybe you can draw some conclusions.I really like this thread but I keep seeing comments about carbon dosing and bacteria dosing. What kind of bacteria are we talking about, I agree that diversity helps but most of what I see out there are nitrifying bacteria and just not sure that is what we want. Really would like more insight and information into the carbon/bacteria dosing side of things.
Thanks
Looking for the Magic in Bottled Bacteria (and in our tanks)
The purpose of this thread is to try to measure and understand how bottled bacteria might work in our tanks. Not the cyclers / nitrifiers - that's well covered here (bacteria in a bottle, Myth or Fact). I'm talking about the bacteria that are meant to help with digestion and breakdown of food...
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I prefer various live rock sources for my bacterial diversity.
As to carbon dosing there are many with more experience than me. I have done it over the years. It always seems to bring down nitrates and not PO4 (for me). The result is my nutrients get out of whack with each other and I get cyano for a couple months.
*edit. Just saw @Reef and Dive post so I need to go read up on Redfield I guess.