Marc Weiss Coral Vital?

[nirrad]

So a guy at a LFS was trying to get me to buy "Coral Vital". Told me it would make my coral's "pop" and "open up" and "color up". I don't like adding any snake oils to my tank, but I decided to look it up anyway. Question is; has any one used this and secondly, I noticed in the ingredients, they list Copper. Isn't this a no-no is reef tanks?

link
http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_ViewI...ss&idProduct=MV1111&IdCategory=FIADSACS&tab=0

 

[acrylic_300]

If you check back through the history of Tank of the Month articles....none of them were Coral Vital driven systems


That doesn't mean it wont work though....or does it?

 

[billsreef]

Re: Marc Weiss Coral Vital?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15267872#post15267872 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by nirrad
I don't like adding any snake oils to my tank,

Your first thought here was the right one

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Re: Marc Weiss Coral Vital?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15267872#post15267872 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by nirrad
So a guy at a LFS was trying to get me to buy "Coral Vital".

lights should go off anytime somebody tries to sell you something at a LFS

 

[Jeff]

I have never read a good review of any of the Marc Weiss products.

 

[nirrad]

you guys are funny. I've been around long enough to know not to buy what their selling. I was more shocked, i guess than anything to see that Copper was an ingredient. Is it a reefsafe copper.... I didn't think so.

 

[JamesJR]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15270450#post15270450 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by nirrad
you guys are funny. I've been around long enough to know not to buy what their selling. I was more shocked, i guess than anything to see that Copper was an ingredient. Is it a reefsafe copper.... I didn't think so.

it is probably a very minor impurity. Lots of good reef products have it listed in the ingrediants, such as ESV's B-ionic but don't contain anywhere near enough of it to hurt any of your aquarium inhabitants. but Marc Weiss's products are definitely Junk. the claims they make in their advertisements are absolutely ridiculous.

 

[BigJay]

The copper is probably chelated, but the product is still junk. Weiss is the king of snake oil.

 

[smatter]

You are better off just adding some sugar or vodka. Coral Vital is just an expensive carbon source. I used the stuff in tanks fifteen years ago, and it worked, because the active ingredient is sugar. I guess that product was way ahead of its time. Don't waste your money on it now, just grab some C&H.

 

[Boomer]

It belongs in the CFB (Circular File Bin)