Treating with Vitamin C

[geoxman]

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[customanimalart]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11474113#post11474113 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Pufferpunk
I'd look into how easily that center panel of your doors can be removed. You can then slip in a bigger fuge down there.


I'm glad to hear more positive feedback!

I stopped using Purigen for a couple of weeks but I have a big mix of corals, from SPS/LPS to leathers & don't want to never use it again. So I add the C to my sump AFTER the water gets filtered thru the Purigen. I'm hoping most of the C will be absorbed by the corals before it gets into the overflow & back thru the Purigen. You certainly can continue using the carbon but don't expect as much of the C to get to your tank.

:hmm1: Ugh! Not sure on that one as it has only a right and left door with the enter being the support/separation of the two sides. I don't think it is doable IMO! Maybe i will post a picture of it

the space for the doors is only 12" x18" (my 10g is 10x20) and there is a center divider inside the stand dividing the r/l sides that can't come down. I believe I am screwed on gettinga 10g in there. Although..... there is 21-22" of space to possibly slide it in and all the way back, then turn it. Hmmmm. Maybe a chore lies ahead soon. Gotta figure out overflow and all that crap (no floods wanted). Me nor my husband has a clue how that DIY stuff works. That's a whole other topic!

 

[dileggi]

I am now tagging along as well! I have a 29 and have had some issues with my zoos closing, albeit my fault for accidentally burning them! LOL!

I started my vit c today, approx 125mg 2x's per day. If this isn't correct, can someone please let me know if I should change that doseage?!

Thanks in advance I will keep posting my results as well.

 

[Pufferpunk]

That's a good start. Keep in mind, my 90g system is about 3x the volume of yours (although I have a TON of rock, a 20g fuge & 20g sump, about 1/3 full, so I guess a very rough estimate of 90-100g of water...) & I'm dosing 2000mg, 2x/day. So you'll want to work your way up to around 500-600mg 2x/day.

 

[dileggi]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11482456#post11482456 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Pufferpunk
That's a good start. Keep in mind, my 90g system is about 3x the volume of yours (although I have a TON of rock, a 20g fuge & 20g sump, about 1/3 full, so I guess a very rough estimate of 90-100g of water...) & I'm dosing 2000mg, 2x/day. So you'll want to work your way up to around 500-600mg 2x/day.

Thanks pufferpunk. I'll keep with the 125 2x's per day for a week or so and increase slowly.

 

[Pufferpunk]

If you're having any issues at all, please take some "before" pics. Even if you aren't... I'd like folks to see the difference, even in an already healthy tank. In a couple of weeks take them again, for "after" pics.

 

[Sk8r]

I got chemically curious---c6 h8 o6 [ascorbic acid: vitamin C] functions in tissue growth, in the use of the amino acid Lysine. As you see, there is pretty basic stuff in its make-up, nothing but carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. And one wonders what the need of a coral might be for something which is usually associated with citrus fruit---but it is also found in leafy green veggies [algaes? phyto? dunno...] and it is water-soluble, excretes readily, and consequently cannot be stored at least by mammals.

I am quite interested in this thread. While hobbyists have [too] enthusiastically in some cases supplemented every element readily available [also via reef salt], and some have supplemented amino acids---while our skimmers work hard to take them out---there's been little experimentation I have ever heard of in supplying key biological compounds that might be useful in the very basic activities of very basic living tissue.

Translation: this is interesting.

It might have some bearing outside zoanthids, where it comes to tissue growth and wound healing. One has to wonder what the saturation point is, and whether corals can adequately excrete it: I would think they can, it being entirely water soluble.

 

[franco_oo]

i no we talk about vita c in forme off caplets but wath about the liquid ones ............. easier to desolube no

 

[Sk8r]

"I know we're talking about vitamin C in caplet form, but what about the liquid ones? Easier to dissolve, yes?"
I'd say probably ok, but sometimes you want things to happen gradually in a tank. Especially if just starting this and testing coral response to the dose, I'd use the caplets simply BECAUSE they change things more slowly.

 

[geoxman]

I would say to use the crystals it is pure and is a better form of the vitamin- because it has no fillers. That is what I have been using and you can get it at GNC. 1 tsp is around 2200mg. good luck

 

[Pufferpunk]

If I hadn't sold my Kent doser, I'd be either dissolving the tabs or powder in 2g of top off water & dripping slowly, like madali is doing. I think that would be best. I'm having fine results placing it in my sump, after the skimmer & Purigen thugh.

 

[micromount]

Vitamin C brand

Vitamin C brand

Sorry if I overlooked any mention of this. Everybrand I lood at today has a binding angent, usually cellulose. Any effect from this?
Thanks.

 

[Pufferpunk]

should be fine

 

[franco_oo]

i but the vitamin C asbsorbic acid chewable tablets 1000 mg is it ok....
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[Pufferpunk]

Hmmm... I don't know about chewable. Might have flavoring or something. I think the more generic, the better.

 

[Pufferpunk]

I know lots of folks were asking for before & after pics & I actually did find an old pic of my Tubb's Blues, the whole purpose of my looking for a cure to this problem. I refused to lose these beauties!

Before:

After (today, 2 months later):

See all the new babies on the bottom? Everything's growing like that now!

 

[madadi]

if that doesnt make your run to the drug store for vitamin C then you must not have zoa in your tank great picture Jeni. took you long enough!

 

[Pufferpunk]

I didn't even know I took that before pic.

 

[madadi]

so in the old picture it almost looks like there is only one polyp still alive, maybe two. did they just open up after the C or did all new ones grow over the dead. the difference is amazing.

 

[killingseed]

what we need is more results like that, we need to see more people to post before and afters.

Pufferpunk very nice colony!