Dosing sugar/vodka in hyposalinity (.009) will it work?

[saltyESQ]

I am battling ich and ammonia and soon nitrate (hopefully) and was wondering the effects of dosing sugar or vodka when the salinity is at .009.

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Dosing sugar or vodka will drive bacterial growth in most any solution, but I've not seen it used to reduce ammonia, and I wouldn't recommend it that way unless you do a lot of careful studies first to show it works.

[saltyESQ]

I wasn't thinking of it to reduce ammonia, but my .25 ppm ammonia will eventually turn to nitrate.


I would like to thank you as you saved my tank, my nitrates were 550ppm and within 2 weeks I reduced it to 20ppm.

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I personally wouldn't worry about nitrate in a hypo hospital tank. Maybe limit it with water changes from time to time. :)