So a regular at my work recently told me he had success with sugar dosing to get rid of GHA. Ive been reading around and seen some mixed reviews. So if anyone here with first hand experiences with any of these methods of carbon dosing can give me some advice and directions, please share your knowledge and experiences.
Sugar/vodka/vinigar dosing, which is safest/proven.
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I tried vodka.. did it per melvs reef instructions. Had great results. At the time it was fish only but just wanted to experiment. Always had nitrates in the 160 ish red area. I don't remember how long it was maybe 2.5 3 months got to like 8 ml or something and my nitrates dropped to about 20ppm. Cut it down to 5 ml but then ended up with flukes had to cut my skimmer quit the vodka dosing seeing as you must have your skimmer on and then just forgot about it.
Don't tell that to my tank that's been getting only vodka for 5 years 
OP, vodka works great, so does vinegar but watch your pH once your dosage gets higher. You don't need to dose bacteria or anything else, but start off slow to avoid bacteria blooms. Some people get cyano due to the vodka making bacteria pull a lot of gunk out of the sandbed, it's pretty temporary and a sign that things are working, just an annoying hurdle you have to clear with carbon dosing on tanks that eventually goes away on its own. Here's the directions http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-08/nftt/
OP, vodka works great, so does vinegar but watch your pH once your dosage gets higher. You don't need to dose bacteria or anything else, but start off slow to avoid bacteria blooms. Some people get cyano due to the vodka making bacteria pull a lot of gunk out of the sandbed, it's pretty temporary and a sign that things are working, just an annoying hurdle you have to clear with carbon dosing on tanks that eventually goes away on its own. Here's the directions http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-08/nftt/
