How do you like using selcon?

91Atrac

91Atrac

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So I wanna see what the ppl who use selcon think of it.

My experience is it tends to creat algae blooms but the fish love it and I feel it has helped a lot in healing them fungus or bacteria. Had my engineer goby was buried under a rock he lived in and came out a couple days later all covered in a white film so after about a month it was happy and healthy :)

How do you like it?


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I've used it for the past year and some months, along with a few other things in my food.

Verdict:I like it

-Ray
 
I use it with frozen foods. My fish seem to be very happy. I have not had any problems with algae blooms from the use of it.
 
Well seemed like I was Getting cyano problems. May have been a flow issue tho.

How do you guys mix it and is it sick thing as it going bad if its been opened or not?


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I use it an like it. There aren't a whole bunch of products in the hobby that have been around as long. It has a following, and is recommended by many other sites and pops up as being used all the time in Tank of Month profiles. It wouldn't have been around so long if wasn't that good IMHO.
 
Its amazing. I soak all my food in it, flake frozen, pellet, even drip in on nori sometimes. Works very well for turning around HLLE. I do not tank dose with it like it say. I also keep it in the fridge
 
I have used it in the past, never saw any changes. I don't think much if any of it stays with the food once it hits the water.
 
I use it frequently, especially with Mysis for new fish in quarentine. Never had any problems.
 
I had a tank sitter while I was on vacation, came back and my potters angel was showing signs of fin rot (along with several dead frags). Started feeding mysis soaked in selcon and the fin rot cleared up in a couple of weeks. I can't say for sure it was the selcon that did it but I still use it 2-3 times a week.
 
Seths Dad said:
I had a tank sitter while I was on vacation, came back and my potters angel was showing signs of fin rot (along with several dead frags). Started feeding mysis soaked in selcon and the fin rot cleared up in a couple of weeks. I can't say for sure it was the selcon that did it but I still use it 2-3 times a week.
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I had the same issue with my engineer goby where he came out of a sand calapse or maybe my pink spotted goby buried him under a rock but when he came out he was all white and a couple weeks later after eating soaked mysis and Cyclopeez he was happy and back at her digging away


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what is the shelf life of it ?

doesnt it get washed off of frozen food as soon as they hit water ?
 
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absolutely love it. we only first heard of it recently when out tang got HLLE, and although we got it too late to save the tang, we use it regularly. We usually does the tank though, maybe once a week put a bit in the sump. Most of our corals have grown insane since we started this... not sure if its directly related or not, but I would say so since none of them grew this quick before. Fish seem to be happy and healthy as well!
 
It might be snake oil for all I know. But being the sheep that I am, I use it because a lot of people I respect use it with seemingly good results, LOL! ........and I try not to do anything to my tank without some sort of scientific back up.

I use 1/2 cc in a shot glass of frozen food, TLF marine snow and Reefcleaners filter feeder formula. I try and let is soak for 30 - 60 min and then pour it in! I do this 3 - 4 times per week in a 34 gal.
 
Spriro, I hear you lol. I Can attest, with the semblance of a control, if I go without adding selcon to food for 3-4 weeks my Lavender Tang starts to develop HLLE spots. Thats about as scientific as it gets for me lol.
 
I use that and garlic, fish have never shown sighns of been sick for over two year now. Not sure how much of this is the two products, but hey, it makes me feel like i'm doing some thing good for my fish :-)
 
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I use that and garlic, fish have never shown sighns of been sick for over two year now. Not sure how much of this is the two products, but hey, it makes me feel like i'm doing some thing good for my fish :-)
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Help me out if I'm wrong but I was told by a good reefer friend that using garlic additives to much can cause liver damage apparently. True false? I think this question falls well with this cuz it's a common thing to mix garlic guard and selcon. I use to often till lately only cuz I can't afford it yet. Selcon it is! And I'd also like to know self life cuz I've had a bottle for a year and its go sludge like stuff now and doesn't dissolve :/


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