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02/14/2008, 08:20 PM | #926 |
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My 40g is turning a slight tinge of yellow/green. Every solid surface is slimy. My skimmer is overflowing. Good news--N03 is 0 but all my fish are out of there, in hypo for crypt.
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Makes me wonder if certain corals are susceptible to one of the effects of dosing.
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02/15/2008, 09:37 AM | #928 |
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Also about the crypt my fish had--only 1 fish showed the parastie. As soon as I say that, I started dosing C in that tank too. None of the other fish showed the parasite, even after 3 weeks.
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02/15/2008, 11:59 AM | #929 |
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Has anyone tried using Glutathione instead?
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02/15/2008, 08:13 PM | #931 |
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Its an antioxidant like Vitamin C
From reading everything here, I was wondering if anyone tried something that was like Vitamin C to see if they get the same effect, and a lot of posts where starting to point to the possibity that it was not the Vitamin C that was helping things out, but the act of being an antioxidant that actually helped because of how it was allowing more benifical things to happen that were being serpressed otherwise. Glutathione is like Vitamin C because it is an antioxidant and it is solubility in water. It can also be found in drug stores as a dietary supplement. |
02/15/2008, 09:33 PM | #932 |
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I just cut back my dosing to 1x day. We'll see if things stay the same or not.
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02/16/2008, 01:13 PM | #933 |
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I am thinking about going to 1 dose a day probably in the morning. Aren't most corals kind of dormant in the dark? I wonder if the second dose does anything.
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Hmm, good point Jose. Do you think that the corals would get the same benefit at night out of the vitamin C as the day dose?
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VC does degrade faster when exposed to light, I dose twice a day, once in the morning right when the lights come on and right when they go off. I'm one day 6 or so, zoas might be starting to open up...well at least they are the most open that they've been in 3months...
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02/16/2008, 09:02 PM | #938 |
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All of my corals are reaaaalllly happy but everything has a slimey film over it like Puffer said... its whitish and grooossss.. i tried cleaning today, changed all of my filter floss and cleaned my skimmer now everything is mad and cloudy... i dont know if this is because of the C or not though??
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RE, How much are you dosing? I think I have been adding too much to my smaller, 40g tank. The bubbles are coming out of the top of the skimmer cup on my Backpac! I added more flow to the tank & it's not as slimey now.
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update
Heres my update for my blue zoos..(started Feb)
So far the asterina starfish are no longer eating the stolons. I havent noticed a growth yet. Then I switched back to my hamilton 14ks..the colors are really showing up as much as before or better. 14k at 2006 same bulb now |
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Can you please post the "before" VC pics with the "after" ones? Now way will we be able to find them.
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Well with the pills I was up to 2000mg 2x a day and then i finally got the powder and started back down at whatever 1/4 a teaspoon is.. i think it's 800 something mg 2x a day... I had gone up to 1/2 a teaspoon and now I'm back down to a 1/4... I still have some pretty sick zoos but i can't stand the slime and now my feather duster looks bad.. I wish there was someway to know what's caused by the VC and what isn't.. i should try to get pics of the slime...
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02/18/2008, 01:09 AM | #943 |
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My slime is gone--I think it must have been a flow problem. I barely had any flow in there. Added a PH & everything's fine now, other than my skimmer going nuts. I think I'm gonna stop adding the C to the skimmer.
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It's funny that people are mentioning the slime. I have my overflow lines run into a mesh bag to keep the bubble from splashing all over. Well I just removed it to put a filter bag on for a few days and it was SOOOO slimey! I thought it was maybe from my algae die-off, but now I wonder if it is the same thing you guys are talking about.
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I'm wondering if it was from something in the VC pills? I cut back on my dosing and have been changing my filter floss/cleaning my skimmer a lot more and scrubbing the rocks off trying to get it all out of there... It looks better than it did so we'll see... My sand is still a mess though... I did have a small algae did off but I dont think it would cause this much slime...
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hey, i just got some 500mg pure vit C tablets from kingsoopers.
they're like the lil capsules w/ balls inside. my question is should i break the capsule open, and just add the vit c, or just stick the pills in?
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G.SMITHII, What are the exact ingredients? If you are not using buffered C, you will have to add buffer to your tank accordingly. Do you drip kalk? I would take it out of the capsules--I don;'t know what the gelatin will do to your tank. That's why I used tablets instead & now buffered powder.
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Bump to 1st page. This should be a sticky!
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now i have a lot smaller of a tank 29g w/o a sump where else do you think i could apply the vit.c maybe in my filter or something??
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