Treating with Vitamin C
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FroggyFeet
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You don't want to overdose the poor little buggers!
Pufferpunk
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How did you measure out 123mg?
When I just started dosing I used 1000mg 2x/day on a ~100g system, so I think you can go 1/4 of that 2x/day.
When I just started dosing I used 1000mg 2x/day on a ~100g system, so I think you can go 1/4 of that 2x/day.
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Pufferpunk
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Agreed, it's the pH you need to watch. Even at the 4000mg/day I'm dosing, my pH hasn't budged at all. Still 8.2
NanoReefWanabe
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i am up to 750 mg a day right now...tomorrow will be a 1000mg
puffer...you have been doing this for 12weeks?
what kinda reports do you have for the duration?
on a side note i increased my MG up to 1600ppm, my alk is 220ppm and my Cal is 440ppm, ph is stable at 8.1
puffer...you have been doing this for 12weeks?
what kinda reports do you have for the duration?
on a side note i increased my MG up to 1600ppm, my alk is 220ppm and my Cal is 440ppm, ph is stable at 8.1
Pufferpunk
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Why so high on the Mg?
I had surgery 3 weeks ago & thought I'd stop treating because it has been a month already I had been dosing. So while I was in the hospital for a week, I didn't bother to have Hubby dose the vitamin C. By the time I got home, the Tubbs blues (the reason for the beginning of all this) were closing & getting that "pinched" look, along with that brown coating they always get before they shrink & melt. I started again with 1000mg, 2x/day & back up to 2000, 2x/day & just yesterday they are starting to look good again. I told Hubby when he gets more Vit C, to get 2 jars, 1 for us & the other for my tanks.
I had surgery 3 weeks ago & thought I'd stop treating because it has been a month already I had been dosing. So while I was in the hospital for a week, I didn't bother to have Hubby dose the vitamin C. By the time I got home, the Tubbs blues (the reason for the beginning of all this) were closing & getting that "pinched" look, along with that brown coating they always get before they shrink & melt. I started again with 1000mg, 2x/day & back up to 2000, 2x/day & just yesterday they are starting to look good again. I told Hubby when he gets more Vit C, to get 2 jars, 1 for us & the other for my tanks.
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NanoReefWanabe
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OD the food and cause PO4 jump i guess...wont do that again......at any rate hair algae bloom on a couple corals and a couple snails...
i will slowly let the MG drop back to 1400 over the next week or so as the GHA is gone now...i have noticed the slime onmy troubled zoas dissappear with in hours of adding the vit C...but what is causing it to come back?
LMAO...Puffer i just read your siggy...under hobby i thought it said underwear photography.....i must be getting tired...LOL
Pufferpunk
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Wow, that was quick!
You mean, on mine?
NanoReefWanabe
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yeah maybe my eyes were just buggin...everytime i look at the zoos there is something different going on with them...go from open an beautiful to shrivelled and dead looking...from day to day...i really dont get it..
but i will keep with the C and see what happens..over the next week or so...if they dont come back i am going to leave them for another week...still nothing i will toss them..
but i will keep with the C and see what happens..over the next week or so...if they dont come back i am going to leave them for another week...still nothing i will toss them..
Pufferpunk
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If you don't dose enough, you're waisting your time & vitamins. Check the article for quantity.
NanoReefWanabe
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the arcticletold me start out with 125mg...i started with 250...and gone up 250 every day...that is 2 times a day i have been doing it too..decided to stop for a week now though...i have to get hair algae under control first...
so chemipure just went in...hopefully that will clear up a bunch of stuff..but only time will tell...my luck it will kill everything..
so chemipure just went in...hopefully that will clear up a bunch of stuff..but only time will tell...my luck it will kill everything..
shackscs
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I wanted to read the article that was located here:
http://www.reefs.org/library/aquariu...996/996_4.html
http://www.reefs.org/library/aquariu...996/996_4.html
mnestroy
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I dont recall what the first article said, but maybe one of these two is them.
http://www.reefs.org/library/aquarium_net/996/996_4.html
http://www.reefs.org/library/talklog/a_thiel_112397.html/
http://www.reefs.org/library/aquarium_net/996/996_4.html
http://www.reefs.org/library/talklog/a_thiel_112397.html/
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