Treating with Vitamin C

[r-balljunkie]

is anyone running amino acids. i am trying out the elos lineup. want to know if there are any adverse effects using VC while adding aminos.
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[joleyar]

thanks

thanks

thanks fellas! Another supplement bottle to sit up on my shelf never to be used again, haha. Gotta love it.

I'll be trying the powdered stuff as soon as I get it in. I'll also take some before and after pictures to share.

Thanks again!

JO

 

[Pufferpunk]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14561928#post14561928 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by r-balljunkie
is anyone running amino acids. i am trying out the elos lineup. want to know if there are any adverse effects using VC while adding aminos.
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I believe Jeff has, I'll PM him about this thread.

 

[Jeff]

I ran amino acids even before dosing vitamin c and then during it. I didnt really see any improvements. I ended up stopping because of a diaton explosion.

 

[sabazerehi]

would it be better to store the vc in a ziploc bag or something that allows you to get as much air out as possible. because everytime you open the bottle, new air and moisture gets inside the bottle i would think. i'd like a way to extend the life of my vc, anybody else have any other techniques?

 

[Pufferpunk]

I move 1/2 of the bottle into a smaller bottle to keep by my tank. the rest stays in the fridge where I don't use it until the 1st half is used.

New update!!!

You must have a skimmer on your tank to use this product. I believe this will be true for ANY carbon dosing. Without the skimmer, there is no way to remove the dissolved organics the VC breaks down & your system could crash. Especially in a small tank, at very high doses.

Please read: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1593646

 

[sabazerehi]

thanks so much puffer, good idea. and thanks for the warning, got it just in time, i just started dosing in my nano and it has no skimmer.

 

[crazydante]

Hey puff, So should my skimmer run always. Or should I turn it off for a few hours after dosing? And I also have a phos reactor running with activated carbon, should I turn that off to? thanks.

 

[Pufferpunk]

You may continue using your skimmer all the time & also carbon, while dosing. I always dose after where my chemical filtration (Purigen) is placed in my sump.

sabazerehi, I'm not sure at what levels of dosing this could cause a system to crash. The fellow in the link was dosing at 100ppm for zoa pox. Can you add a nano skimmer on there?

 

[Ncastro1981]

I am back on vit. c cant believe the change, forgot how fast algea grew when you stop. Chaeto grew out of tank, fuge walls became covered. zoo's closed up, colors deminished when i stopped. But all is back to looking great after a week of going again. I am doing between 5 and 7 grams 2x a day

 

[Jeff]

I stopped for a month and the only thing that changed was an increase in nitrates because I feed so heavily. If corals close back up after stopping VC, I would look for a cause while dosing. Maybe toxins, leather corals, parameters off, etc...

 

[puckbs]

just a sidenote...when referencing how much you dose, i think it would be more useful to use your ppm instead of your volume...5 to 7 grams in my tank would raise my water leverl ;-)....ppms would be a constant value to compare among tanks....science teacher....just my .02

 

[sabazerehi]

i was dosing roughly 1/8 of a tsp (sorry don't know the ppm). i had some zoas with zoas pox that i dipped with furan 2 anyways but i though the vc could help more. i don't think my vc is working anymore anyways, i have some zoas that seem to be melting in my larger 40g and the vc isn't doing anything for them as far as i can tell and i've been dosing continuously for the past few weeks now (i took a break before that). i'm at half a tsp for my 40g (total volume 50g) and i have some zoa pox in there as well.
i contacted iherb about the bad vc and i must say great customer service, got back to me within the same day and said they'd ship me a new bottle with no extra charge and i don't have to ship the old one back.

 

[Pufferpunk]

What makes you think it's bad?

 

[sabazerehi]

the smell it's acquired and when i emailed iherb about it, saying that it has a smell, they didn't tell me it wasn't bad so i just assumed there's a chance it is.

 

[Pufferpunk]

The bottle of VC itself has a bad smell?

 

[Jeff]

I thaught I had a bad smelling bottle of vitamin c also. Everytime I held it up to my nose it smelled terrible. Then I realized it was my finger that smelled .

 

[sabazerehi]

ya when i open the bottle the vc smells a little strange and it does smell a little citrus-ey so it is the vc not my finger .

 

[roblack]

Smells like strange? Sounds like you got a bottle of Vitamin P.

 

[Pufferpunk]

You guys are terrible!