Vitamin c and zoas

kratos1028

kratos1028

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I wanted to put this out there for all the people who are currently dosing vitamin c.

I have been dosing vitamin c for a year and am always experimenting with works best for zoas. I was keeping my system between 5-10ppm per dosing charts method. I was dosing vitamin c in my 125 since last year September. Zoas responded well. They grew nicely, got better colors, and just seemed fuller. After those initial few months, everything slowed down a little. I stopped dosing a month or 2 ago just to see what would happen to my zoas. I kid you not, within a week of stopping, all my zoas got much better colors and grew faster then before. Most of my sps did too. It took a bit to figure out why since vitamin c has been claimed to be very good for corals. When I stopped dosing, my tank got "dirtier" which zoas like. Skimmer started pulling out a little less too.

To sum up, vitamin c isn't the cure to everything. It will help but only to a point before it strips the tank of the nutrients that corals need, especially zoas. I am glad I stopped vitamin c. The colors and growth you guys see in my recent pics of zoas came after stopping vit c.

This is just from me experimenting and my experience.

Okay, that is all. :D
 
The evidence that coral tissue can even utilize vitamin C is sketchy. Basically it just becomes a carbon source for denitrifying bacteria. My guess is the sudden surge of growth and color was due to the bacteria population increasing, becoming a food source for the zoas, and subsequently dropping when the nutrients were depleted. This is what happened with my vitC experiment anyway
 
Akwarius said:
The evidence that coral tissue can even utilize vitamin C is sketchy. Basically it just becomes a carbon source for denitrifying bacteria. My guess is the sudden surge of growth and color was due to the bacteria population increasing, becoming a food source for the zoas, and subsequently dropping when the nutrients were depleted. This is what happened with my vitC experiment anyway
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There you are Travis! lol

I think you are right. It was the vit c that was depleting those bacteria and when I stopped, that population increased like you said.
 
Hey Fahad! Thought I would drop by. If someone would contact me about sponsorship, I might do that too.

I personally found vitamin c more difficult to control than the alternative carbon methods. If someone would come forward with solid research showing that vitC is utilized by coral tissue, then it might be worth the risk.
 
Akwarius said:
Hey Fahad! Thought I would drop by. If someone would contact me about sponsorship, I might do that too.

I personally found vitamin c more difficult to control than the alternative carbon methods. If someone would come forward with solid research showing that vitC is utilized by coral tissue, then it might be worth the risk.
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Holy awesome possibilities...Travis!!
 
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