Treating with Vitamin C

[Jeff]

You should receive your order within a few days I would think if you live in the lower 48. Until then I suggest doing a water change or two and clean your skimmer really well, you are going to need it.

[CLINTOS]

Just as a guesstimate how long would dosing 1/8t-1/4 tsp daily last with this size bottle?

http://www.iherb.com/NutriBiotic-Sod...4-g/10178?at=0

[ludnix]

A year maybe.

[CLINTOS]

nice

[Ohio]

Can I start dosing @ 30ppm or do I need to gradually build to that. I have a Haddoni Carpet and do not want to shock him.

[Pufferpunk]

I'd definitely start at 5 & only raise the percentage by 5 each time, every 3 days.

[CLINTOS]

what page or thread are the signs of overdosing and/or the fist things to start to get sick or die on?

thanks

[Pufferpunk]

Even at 100ppm, I've never overdosed or lost anything in my tanks. Start slow & raise by 5ppm increments & you should be fine. If you are dosing without a skimmer, I wouldn't go higher than 10ppm. The fellow who was dosing at 100ppm w/o skimmer had a huge bacterial bloom (lots of brown slime coating everything) & without the skimmer able to remove this, the tank crashed overnight.

[wickedfish]

Tested everything I could today all trates phates trites 0, calcium in check 450 via elos, alkalinty is my only battle lately but not much today it was 7. So updates zoas are all sweet leather is awesome and all of my lps and softies are thick and nice, sps well some good some not so good and some great no PE still havent figured that out yet and cant figure out the brown out effect my tank has.

[Pufferpunk]

Keep an eye on those SPS, I bet you'll be seeing colored tips from a growth spurt soon!

[perikaruppan]

been reading a lot and now onto writing ...

well been dosing vodka (upped from 0.5ml to 6ml currently in 2 months) and vitamin C (iherb) at 1/2tsp (5mg) on my 130 gal tank.. been dosing for the last 2 months or so.. can see some better coloration on my zoans... but vitamin C i dose just once a day.. and during lights ON time.

just wanted to know whether can i dose both, or restrict to just vitamin C?

or is there anyways wherein i can make a Vitamin C solution (vitamin C + RO Water) , and dose that solution using the doser, this makes it automated and i dont need to worry about the manual dosing. is there a formula for this?

[Pufferpunk]

Since VC breaks down in water & is totally dissipated within 8 hours, using a doser is out of the question. Better to dose after lights out, than during the morning.

[wickedfish]

got a better skimmer hopefully that will kick up the nutrient export and aid with the V/C dosing. keep u updated pink unknown zoa colony now at 35+ heads 6 weeks ago at 18

[Tank2379]

Upgrading to 125G how much should I dose daily? I was dosing 1/2 teaspoon twice daily in my 72G just wondering if going with 1/2 of Tablespoon would be too much twice daily?

[Pufferpunk]

What are you dosing for? I dose 1 tsp in my 100g, 2x/day.

[npsossi@msn.com]

Are there any coupons out now? It is time to reorder.

[Pufferpunk]

The $5 off is only good for your 1st order.

[sterling18]

Originally Posted by Pufferpunk

Since VC breaks down in water & is totally dissipated within 8 hours, using a doser is out of the question. Better to dose after lights out, than during the morning.

What if you used the commercial VC from say Brightwells and dosed from that? You can always set it to drop (x) at the same time every night.

[CLINTOS]

how is it added to the tank?

mixed up with regular water or tank water?

or does it matter?

do you stir?

[CLINTOS]

Would this work?



http://www.luckyvitamin.com/p-3832-n...shopzilla.com&

[Pufferpunk]

Originally Posted by sterling18

What if you used the commercial VC from say Brightwells and dosed from that? You can always set it to drop (x) at the same time every night.

Considering VC breaks down in water very quickly (totally gone within 8 hours), I'm not sure how they would suspend it in liquid form. Unless you are dosing a pico tank, I think it would be used up very quickly in the amounts recommended to dose 2x/.day. Compare The amounts of VC per 1/4 tsp for each product.

[Pufferpunk]

Originally Posted by CLINTOS

how is it added to the tank?
mixed up with regular water or tank water?
or does it matter?
do you stir?

I add it to my sump or under the skimmer cup on a HOB slimmer, in the crystal form.

Would this work?
http://www.luckyvitamin.com/p-3832-n...shopzilla.com&

That product is not buffered. It has a pH of 4.

[ludnix]

Vitamin C in the commercial products might be bound to something. Not all vitamin-C breaks down after 8 hours otherwise orange juice would have none.

We probably can do a titration setup to test the vitamin-C levels after a period of time with various products, I will have to do some more research into the setup though.

[Pufferpunk]

You're still dealing with the fact that the Brightwells & other commercial sold products have much less concentrate of actually VC in them.

[ludnix]

Yeah, but I'm talking about the effect of any of the vitamin-c products being exposed to ro/di water and air. It would be a relative test so the fact that we use a more concentrated solution of ascorbic acid than brightwells should not make a difference.

What I am curious is how to prevent the vitamin-c from oxidizing in liquid so that it could be used in a dosing setup. That would make it much easier than having to measure it out twice a day. Since there are commercial products which keep the ascrobic acid in water it seems like we should be able to as well.