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[zoalover34]

How long after you started dosing VC did you notice a difference? I just started the 1st of the month, hopefully everything starts growing like crazy like your zoas did!

 

[Cichlid-Man]

I probably noticed within a week or so. Takes a keen eye though, like noticing a lot of baby polyps popping up under the bigger ones. And seeing polyps pop up out of a mass of bubble algae that over took a frag and was tossed to the side of the tank thinking it was gone. If everything goes right you should just notice overall better health in the polyps, hard to explain but you can just look at them and tell they are living life.

 

[quaddity]

What's VC? Vitamin C?

 

[Cichlid-Man]

Yes VC = Vitamin C

 

[zoalover34]

Like i said before im using the pill s b/c my wife had some and doesn't take them anymore so hopefully they will do the same thing.. They take a long time to totally disolve.. Just using 500mg a day.. Is that what your using? I will let ya know if I notice any new growth.. My sps actually looks alot better since ive started! (except my birdsnest when i was moving rocks around i broke it into alot of baby pieces and i think they are dead lol)

 

[Cichlid-Man]

I use pure sodium ascorbate powder. 1/4 TSP per like 32oz of water (specimen cotainer is my top off bucket. I usually add 2 daily to the tank). So i disolve mine in the top off before it goes in the tank because i don't have the luxury of a sump on the 10gal.

 

[Joe Fish]

Where do you get your VC? I'm thinking of giving this a shot.

 

[Cichlid-Man]

This is what i use and where i got it from:
iHerb.com - Product Details - NutriBiotic, Sodium Ascorbate Crystalline Powder, 16 oz (454 g)

"MOH088" as the code when checking out for $5 off your first order!

 

[zoalover34]

I just have the pills you can pick em up at any place that sells vitimans, they are pretty cheap

 

[Lorna]

before you just start popping vc tabs into your aquarium shouldn't you ensure that the tabs contain no other fillers in them that may be detrimental?????

I would make sure that I was using high grade pharmacuetical quality and not some cheap form from wally world or such.

 

[zoalover34]

They are pure VC i checked the ingredints b4 i put em in.. I think if anything bad was going to happen it would have by now.. its been almost a week

 

[Lorna]

just a heads up as some vitamin supplements contain trace minerals etc and unknown fillers and such.

 

[Cichlid-Man]

Yep. Always a good thing to pay attention to. Thats why i use what i use!

 

[Fishmonger70]

Just be careful your corals don't turn into VC junkies. Get from a good supplier and not from a guy off the street.

 

[Lorna]

yeah have to watch out for those vc dealers on the street.....right next to the crack dealers.....hahaha

 

[Orion]

yesh, see what I miss by not coming in here more. Now yall got your corals on crack. heh, no wonder they look so good (but have that strange needy look to them....)