Diluted Easy Carbo for Automated dosing

[niru]

Hi All

I am thinking of autodosing Easy Carbo in my tank. I currently auto-dose EI macros and micros, and to avoid fungal issues in these stock-solutions, I put EasyCarbo in them. I was wondering if this gets utilised as a liquid carbon source for the tank, or it disintegrates in the EI solutions. I read that the active-time for easy carbo is typically half a day or so in the tank. After that it doesnt act as a liquid carbon source. Hence on needs to dose it more frequently (daily, say?).

What happens if I use DI water to dilute EasyCarbo and dose it separately, or simply increase the amount of EC in my EI solutions? Will this be a good source, particularly since the stocks last for 2 months or so??

Any inputs are more than welcome!

thanks as always
-niru

 

[Bobtastic]

I'm interested to know the answer to this.

 

[spyder]

I've considered dilutiung EC with water to dose nano aquariums to avoid the 0.3ml doses and such. Interested too.

 

[niru]

Hi All

anyone on this??

 

[danmil3s]

doesn't the stuff brake down in water. isn't that why it needs dosing daily. 12 hours it takes i seem to remember reading