Dosing milk and honey for improved SPS color?? LOL WUT?

[Confuse]

I hate to not be original in my content, but I couldn't pass this up for discussion....There's a guy on RC that claims dosing milk and honey have helped improve his SPS colors. What do y'all think?

Cut the crap....
Thanks for the reply my friends, I really add real milk and honey,
and the NO3 & PO4 values are always around 20~50(before) & 0.05(usually)
i add milk 10cc per day, I stop adding honey about 3 months,
because I want to examine the effect of the milk
the milk can help coral growth fast including sps and lps,

The original purpose I add milk is increase the fatty acid for the tank to avoid sps skin peeling, compared to add the commercial products, is heterogeneous, often incongruous mixture of elements, i prefer to add milk,

but i add milk after alga disappear, and sps become the major creature,
or there will bring the disaster


By the way, the NO3 values is about 0.5~5 after start adding honey,
if you want to know more information, please let me know, thks!

Guy's page (starts on page 6 or 7, I think): http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2204097&page=7
Reference to source: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2425029

 

[Adrock]

I think milk and honey is a carbon source so like vodka dosing or sugar dosing but not sure basically like running bio pellets

 

[solitude127]

F.O.S.
lol....

 

[lowbudget]

snake oil. lol

 

[Tangwich]

add some oats and you got breakfast...get it, honey bunches of oats cereal : p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A

 

[Confuse]

Haha. Skeptics! You gotta give it to the guy though, his tank looks nice!

 

[pirate2876]

Hugo's tank on RC. I think he knows more that you naysayers....

 

[Tangwich]

Beautiful Kaleidoscope of colors and very impressive tank, but I am sorry I have to disagree with you Pirate that he knows more. If you think about it, a full SPS tank is easier to manage than a mixed reef. Just keep stable parameters and for the most part, you're good. A mixed reef requires more work and diligence because you have to tend to the lighting, flow and nutrient needs of different kinds of corals. It's a never ending juggling act with a mixed reef.

 

[pirate2876]

Beautiful Kaleidoscope of colors and very impressive tank, but I am sorry I have to disagree with you Pirate that he knows more. If you think about it, a full SPS tank is easier to manage than a mixed reef. Just keep stable parameters and for the most part, you're good. A mixed reef requires more work and diligence because you have to tend to the lighting, flow and nutrient needs of different kinds of corals. It's a never ending juggling act with a mixed reef.

Understood, and thanks for your eloquent response. I have always had a mixed reef of sorts, but I think SPS can very temperamental and harder to keep. Saying SPS is easier because it "only" requires stable parameters is like saying winning the lottery is easy, just guess the right numbers.

The dude's tank is insane.

 

[Tangwich]

Understood, and thanks for your eloquent response. I have always had a mixed reef of sorts, but I think SPS can very temperamental and harder to keep. Saying SPS is easier because it "only" requires stable parameters is like saying winning the lottery is easy, just guess the right numbers.

The dude's tank is insane.

ah, now I see the whole picture (literally)...I thought it was a full blown sps tank only. Now I see it's actually pretty much a mixed reef as well. And a beauty at that. I posted a thread on this topic to see what others think. I am not saying I am right or wrong, just curious to see what the masses believe is more difficult to "keep"

 

[pirate2876]

I dont think its fair to discredit the amount of work and consistency that goes into a tank like this. To call someone's methods incorrect because you don't understand them is unfair to the finished results. But I think he also has a nice camera to get some of these shots.

 

[Tangwich]

I never called his methods incorrect. Heck, if I knew that by putting lemon, ginger and black shoe polish into my tank, I would get similar results, I would do it regardless of anyone's opinions or words of discouragement.

 

[JOSE CASAS]

Beautiful Kaleidoscope of colors and very impressive tank, but I am sorry I have to disagree with you Pirate that he knows more. If you think about it, a full SPS tank is easier to manage than a mixed reef. Just keep stable parameters and for the most part, you're good. A mixed reef requires more work and diligence because you have to tend to the lighting, flow and nutrient needs of different kinds of corals. It's a never ending juggling act with a mixed reef.

Wrong .......prove me other wise and do all sps tank master of all trades!

 

[Tangwich]

Wrong .......prove me other wise and do all sps tank master of all trades!

Are you trying to bait me into this???....if so, then you must be the true Master Baitor!

 

[JOSE CASAS]

Lmao..... Just do it!!!!

 

[Six2seven]

I think with the amount of work and stability he has put into his tank, he can add those little twist and tests like honey or milk and see what becomes of it. I think for his tank he might have found something that helps him. But for the average tank like us, adding honey and milk to our tanks will get us an algae bloom lol

 

[Confuse]

I may have found the secret to SPS growth and color!!

http://youtu.be/JKhiSs2VRpg

 

[Livinlocal]

It's hard to tell but it looks like he may be running bio pellets or zeo? Maybe the milk helps him Becuase he is running a ulns?

 

[ngvu111]

If my tank can look like that I put cash in it even

 

[dbone]

If my tank can look like that I put cash in it even

wait.. we're not putting cash in the tank? Then where the heck did all the $ go?