Vinegar effect on coralline algae

[Groundfury]

I want to know if vinegar used as a carbon source effects coralline algae growth are in any other way sense vinegar is used to clean coralline off hardware.

[philbo32]

The amount you add to clean your hardware compared to the small amount you dose as an organic carbon addition for bacteria are not really comparable. I have stopped dosing vinegar and just dose vodka and sugar because of problems in the past.

[bertoni]

I agree. Dosing vinegar isn't going to hurt coralline directly unless you have a big dosing accident. :) You might see less coralline growth if the bacteria outcompete the coralline for nutrients, though.

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I haven't noticed any change in coralline on initiating vinegar. :)

[tmz]

The bacterial film that sometimes accompanies carbon dosing may discourage some growth on the glass. I seem to have had less of it to scrape over the year I've been dosing vodka/vinegar.Coraline on the rocks seems about the same as it was prior to dosing.