Vitamin C Question

[glassocean]

I'm wondering if I get my tank up to 50ppm of VC will it harm or help any new arrivals (Corals) that were not exposed to any VC in the past?

 

[Pufferpunk]

It should help them. Why such a high dose though?

 

[glassocean]

It looks as if this is the required amount.

From http://www.athiel.com/lib2/pguide/vitami1.html

"Day 1 : concentration of 5 ppm
Day 2 : concentration of 15 ppm
Day 3 : concentration of 30 ppm
Day 4 : concentration of 50 ppm
After day 4, continue treating with a concentration of 50 ppm for 10 more days.
The total treatment period is thus 14 days"

Is it too much?

 

[Pufferpunk]

That has been adjusted by us to this:
[desired ppm] x [system gallonage] x 3.785 = mg Vitamin C

So for every 100 gallons:

5 ppm ----- 1892 mg VC
10 ppm ---- 3785 mg VC
15 ppm ---- 5677 mg VC
20 ppm ---- 7570 mg VC
25 ppm ---- 9462 mg VC
30 ppm ---- 11355 mg VC

I have never found it necessary to dose over 25ppm. I'm at a pretty steady dose of around 23ppm right now & have been for months.

 

[glassocean]

Ok, that's good to know. 50 ppm is ALOT of VC. I'm on day 4 and actually under shot required amounts. I'm more like 20ppm.


Thanks

 

[Pufferpunk]

How are things looking?

 

[glassocean]

I think things (mostly Zoo's) are looking a bit better, just in this short amount of time. This is a very interesting theory. I'm actually in the business and I find this intriguing. I had a bunch of new arrivals yesterday and I'm curios to see how they will respond to this. They seem to open up a faster and my red PE's are looking better already.

Thanks