not loosing any in this tank...got very good growth right now...except one small colony is adjusting due to a lighting change...everything i have going now is small, i'd say the biggist group has 20/30 tops. i'm looking for the colors to pop and keep them from melting down the road like my last tank did...same story as you i guess, could of prevented that loss knowing this was out there.
Treating with Vitamin C
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twelvejewelz
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have you ever heard of vitamin c dosing causing a bacteria bloom and making your water stink? im trying to narrow down what caused my tank to crash. its either the vitamin C , 2 part calcium/alk, seachem ph buffer or seachem magnesium suppliment.
Pufferpunk
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Your tank crashed after you started dosing? What happened, exactly?
Jeff
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Quick update on my little experiment. I stopped dosing for a month and just started back up 2 weeks ago. My zoas continued to do good and nothing closed up during the "off" month. I did have a gradual nitrate increase from undetectable up to around 5+ ppm over the course of the "off month". I started to get a patch of cyano on my sandbed and a little on a few rocks. I continued to do weekly 15% water changes using Seachem Reef Salt in 0 TDS RO/DI water. During this last 2 weeks of dosing 5-6 ppm, my nitrates have dropped to around 1 ppm and the cyano is almost gone.
I am really starting to think that at least one of the advantages of dosing pure sodium ascorbate is that it dose act as a carbon source feeding denitrifing bacteria. The signs and symptoms of vodka, sugar, vinager dosing are almost identical to sodium ascorbate dosing. The bacterial bloom encountered when overdosing vitamin c is the same and the reduction of nitrates and phosphates is the same.
I am really starting to think that at least one of the advantages of dosing pure sodium ascorbate is that it dose act as a carbon source feeding denitrifing bacteria. The signs and symptoms of vodka, sugar, vinager dosing are almost identical to sodium ascorbate dosing. The bacterial bloom encountered when overdosing vitamin c is the same and the reduction of nitrates and phosphates is the same.
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Pufferpunk
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Glad to hear you're back on the wagon!
dalailammy
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After doing some extensive reading on here I ordered the Vit. C and started dosing. I don't usually experiment on my tanks but I had some zoa's melt and jumped aboard. I just started dosing. I'll chime in when I visually see some changes, good or bad. I'm a reader and not a poster but just wanted to say thanks.
Pufferpunk
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Thanks for going out of your norm to post about this! Please take some "before" pics.
Guygettnby
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well after starting to dose my tanks i did also get an algea bloom and my glass was very, very covered and dark. i have been dosing about 1500mg a day in a 70g system. any insight to this?
also any help on how much i should dose would be grateful!
70g and a 24g
also any help on how much i should dose would be grateful!
70g and a 24g
Pufferpunk
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1500mg isn't very much on your system. Way less than 5ppm at this point. What kind of VC are you using?
twelvejewelz
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the water began to smell like dead sea waterand was very cloudy . im not blaming it on the vitamin c though it would have been a number of things like i stated above.from now on im gona stick with the vitamin c dosing only and do 2 weekly water changes to replenish calcium and mag instead of dosing those and well see if it happend again. i did a 100% water change and now everything is smelling great and healthy again but like i said i really cant just narrow it down to the vitamin c.
twelvejewelz
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yes using nutri seawater- to get whatever poluted my water totally out. now my tank is beautiful
Orochimaru
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before vit. C
a couple months after and possibly diff. lighting, not sure?;
they are the same zoos.
a couple months after and possibly diff. lighting, not sure?;
they are the same zoos.
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Pufferpunk
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I'm not sure how effectual before & after pics are of healthy corals, even if there is a huge difference to the naked eye, without using the exact same settings on the camera & the same distance from the subjet. Thanks for the pics though. What I'm really needing is drastic pics of corals (zoas especially) that were on their way out & now looking fantastic.
Like these:
New zoas
Melting polyps
3 months after dosing VC
See all the new babies below the origional colony?
Like these:
New zoas
Melting polyps
3 months after dosing VC
See all the new babies below the origional colony?
Dancing4raiin
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14204534#post14204534 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Pufferpunk
I'm not sure how effectual before & after pics are of healthy corals, even if there is a huge difference to the naked eye, without using the exact same settings on the camera & the same distance from the subjet. Thanks for the pics though. What I'm really needing is drastic pics of corals (zoas especially) that were on their way out & now looking fantastic.
Like these:
New zoas
Melting polyps
3 months after dosing VC
See all the new babies below the origional colony?
I'd like to see a new picture added to the end. I've read you have had great growth and would like to see how much it has grown.
SIR PATRICK
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+1 for curiosity sake.
Guygettnby
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i found the stuff at GNC and it says the only ingredients are VIT C and rose hipps. its crystals instead of tabs.
how much should i be dosing in those 2 tanks? will that effect the tank and cause it to have an algea bloom? everything in the tanks looks healthy and it was healthy before i started dosing.
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