Selcon = Coral Growth?

[BigEZ77]

A few days ago, I started using Selcon and Garlic Guard to soak the frozen food for my fish. Since then, I have seen astounding coral growth for my shrooms, zoaz, duncan, trumpet, plates, blasto and open brain. The chalice's, cyphastrea, kenya tree, tyree toadstool and frogspawn don't seem to be growing but they all seem healthy. Has anyone else noticed this in their tanks?

Thanks,

 

[cloak]

IMO the Selcon & Garlic Guard doesn't have anything to do with this. My guess is that your tank has found a "sweet spot" so to say and everything is responding really well to it. Your alkalinity, calcium, magnesium, nitrates etc is right where it should be.
How long has your tank been set up for?

 

[BigEZ77]

Good to hear. Its about 3 months post cycle. Also in the midst of a diatom bloom.

 

[Ron Reefman]

I'll double down on what cloak said. Your additives may help some with health but have next to nothing to do with growth.

 

[CStrickland]

I doubt you're seeing any growth in 3 days. At least in the sense that the coral are making new skeleton from calcium etc. But selcon is very rich, it will trigger a feeding response in animals that filter the water. I think what you're seeing is that, like they smell the food and plump up/reach out to grab it, so they look bigger and happier.

Just be careful with over feeding that stuff. It's also pretty good algae fertilizer so sometimes people get excited and go a little nuts, they after a few weeks bam! Algae city. There's a lot of good threads about feeding coral, some good search terms are "target feeding" and "broadcast feeding." Generally, I use a turkey baster to target ones with larger mouths like your Duncan once or twice a week. Smaller mouths like zoa I let fend for themselves.

Really it depends on your export and husbandry, over feeding isn't too much food - it's more food than your tank can process.

 

[ca1ore]

Correlation is not causation, but I notice that when I'm using Zoe with the fish foods, my corals look better than when I don't. If the vitamins are good for the motile animals, why wouldn't they also be good for the sessile ones?

 

[BigEZ77]

Just be careful with over feeding that stuff. It's also pretty good algae fertilizer so sometimes people get excited and go a little nuts, they after a few weeks bam! Algae city. There's a lot of good threads about feeding coral, some good search terms are "target feeding" and "broadcast feeding." Generally, I use a turkey baster to target ones with larger mouths like your Duncan once or twice a week. Smaller mouths like zoa I let fend for themselves.

Noted, I only put 3-4 drops of the Selcon and as little as possible of the garlic each time I feed which is once per day. I also target feed Reefroids once per week.