Vitamin C dosing

Update: Ive been dosing vit C for a week now and I have a colony, and half of the polpys have been closed up for a few weeks and were shrinking and I noticed last night that they started opening back up... Cant wait to see what happens in a few more weeks.

well honestly Nick when I was there I thought your zoas were looking good! If this Vit C really does end up helping I'd love to make another trip out to your house with some $ to buy some frags :) fingers crossed!

Noticed that my skimmer has been pulling out some darker gunk too, I dont have any buffered vit c and before I started dosing, my ph and alk were low so I started buffering to raise those up, im sure that is helping too.

I bought some last year that I didnt end up using for very long, so I've been bustin that out. Once Its out ill for sure want to look into some home made. Where did you find out how to make the home made?

Snowsrfr, do you have an update on how the Vit C is working for you? I ordered some also, but would love to know if it is really working or not. If so what is your dosing schedule? 

Ive stopped doing this week. I lost a fish (dont think its related to the vit c) but although I'm seeing some improvements in one of my colonies, some off my other corals are looking upset. I was dosing without running carbon. Next week I'll probably start dosing at a lower level and keep the carbon in...

I started dosing in my Biocube polyp garden at 1/8tsp, and started getting good results, but then got greedy and bumped it up to 1/4tsp. Noticed an overall decrease in color and happiness of my polys, so I dropped back down to 1/4tsp and I'm getting some great color increase, and some of my frags are starting to take off with baby polyps popping up.

I will try posting pics soon. I have been dosing a full teaspoon a day in my 65. Seems like I am getting pretty good growth but I definitely am noticing better colors. I dose when I feed my tank. Still going well for me. But from what everyone is dosing I may cut back on how much I am using.

ehender634 wrote: So I just wanted to give an update on my tank. I was dosing 2 tsp 2X/day in my 200 gal system for 2 weeks. I really didn't notice any changes in my zoas and all my sps started to die in spots.Â

You started dosing that much from day one?

Weird... I've been dosing for a few months and my sps is looking better than ever

ehender634 wrote: Snowsrfr, do you have an update on how the Vit C is working for you? I ordered some also, but would love to know if it is really working or not. If so what is your dosing schedule?ÂÂ

Life has reared it's ugly head, and I have been content with just maintaining my tanks and keeping things alive.

This weekend I installed my Aquaticlife skimmer in my cube, cuz I forgot the part where it's recommended to run a skimmer when dosing VC. I believe it was Friday or Saturday that I got the skimmer installed and VC dosing started again. I'm dosing 1/8tsp, twice daily on my 29 Biocube. I'll take some before pics, hopefully tonight, but have already seen a dramatic color explosion in my Poinsettia polyp.

Edit: I just got done looking over all my different polyps in my "frag" tank. Since Saturday this is the new things that have happened since a steady VC dosing regimen.

Pumpkin Nightmares have a new baby polyp

JF Crazy Ladies have a bulge in the mat where a baby is about to come out.

Poinsettia is getting it's bright red color (as stated above)

Magician paly - 1 of 3 heads have opened up. All 3 have been closed for over a week.

I'm trying to get before pics, what I've noticed since Saturday, etc. but my snails and crabs have ESP when it comes to me wanting to take pics and have crawled over 90% of my polyps.

Edited by Snowsrfr - November 14 2011 at 6:30pm