Vitamin C dosing for zoanthids (I am clueless)

Chris2222000 · Feb 22, 2008

Ok my vit c has arrived and i aim for 5ppm right now. I dont have a scale so about how much of a teaspoon should i add to my 22 gallon? I computed a figure of around 350 mg.
Thanks
Chris

Paintguru · Feb 22, 2008

Chris2222000 said:
Ok my vit c has arrived and i aim for 5ppm right now. I dont have a scale so about how much of a teaspoon should i add to my 22 gallon? I computed a figure of around 350 mg.
Thanks
Chris

Should say on the container how many mg of VC are in so much powder. Mine lists it in teaspoons

Chris2222000 · Feb 22, 2008

Thanks ! Wow it doesnt take much of this stuff, .25 teaspoon=1112 mg, so i would need about one tenth of a teaspoon, LOL.

Pufferpunk · Feb 22, 2008

Estimating is close enough. Don't forget those "before" pics!

fragjunkie · Feb 26, 2008

Any pics of effects from dosing?

Pufferpunk · Feb 26, 2008

Before (almost lost these, just like all the rest):

After--8 weeks later (note all the new polyps below the larger ones):

fragjunkie · Feb 29, 2008

I think I may give this a shot. Wonder how it affects SPS

LiveRock27 · Feb 29, 2008

I also treated my tank with the buffered Vitamin C and saw good results on my unhealthy zoas, but even with the buffered C I found that I had trouble keeping my pH up in my 14g Biocube. I tried both the VC buffered with calcium and with sodium and found that both caused my pH to swing too much even with smaller doses to continue use. I saw that yall are using it in a larger system, but was wondering if anyone has been using it in a nano tank? I have to say that the treatment does wonders for your zoas.

fragjunkie · Mar 5, 2008

any more before and after pics before i dose?

fragjunkie · Mar 5, 2008

I ordered some of that buffered stuff and added 1/4 teaspoon to a cup of water and mixed. After adding it to my tank my SPS started sliming up. Anyone else have this experience. I hope it's not bad because I have over 5000 in SPS in there.

bkv1997 · Mar 5, 2008

your sps doing better? I'm curious to the effects on SPS as well.

Pufferpunk · Mar 5, 2008

Mine haven't slimed at all & are growing colored tips I didn't know they even had. Please give me a little info on how you are dosing? Are you starting at 5ppm?

fragjunkie · Mar 6, 2008

The sliming went away. I dosed 1/4 teaspoon of the buffered VC into my 110g total water volume. I think according to the bottle that's about 1200mg.

Pufferpunk · Mar 6, 2008

Here is a very scientific explaination of dosing:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1299692&perpage=25&pagenumber=1
And another thread where folks are posting their data:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1313416&highlight=vitamin+c

kiddboy · Mar 10, 2008

hi, i have been following the VC thread for sometime. finally got myself to try it today.

i am from singapore (S-E asia). and i can't get any VC in powder form. so, i bought Buffered C-1000. it is in tablet/pill form. in each tablet, it contains:

Vitamin C = 1000mg - 1752%
Calcium = 110g - 11%.

this product is calcium ascorbate (only pure VC with buffered i can find it here)

i started dosing 5ppm in my 100g mix-reef tank (80% zao). so, should i remain in this dosing for few weeks or should i increase 15ppm on day 2, 30ppm on day 3 and 50ppm on day 5 and remain dosing 50ppm for next 10-30 days?

some of my zao colonies are not doing good (turned brown). hope that with VC dosing, it can revives those colonies

Pufferpunk · Mar 11, 2008

You may add is as quickly as you have listed in your post. Please take some "before" pics. I think you will be very happy with the results. Keep us posted!

kiddboy · Mar 12, 2008

when i started with 5ppm (100g), my deltec skimmer still skimming well. when i increased the dosing to 10ppm, i got to stop my skimmer for almost 1/2 day. my skimmer went "crazy" and overflow with a lot of tank water.

has anyone got such problem?

Paintguru · Mar 12, 2008

kiddboy said:
when i started with 5ppm (100g), my deltec skimmer still skimming well. when i increased the dosing to 10ppm, i got to stop my skimmer for almost 1/2 day. my skimmer went "crazy" and overflow with a lot of tank water.

has anyone got such problem?

I did when I used pills, which I believe had filler in them that made the skimmer go nuts. Are you using pure powder or pills?

kiddboy · Mar 12, 2008

Paintguru said:
I did when I used pills, which I believe had filler in them that made the skimmer go nuts. Are you using pure powder or pills?

i can't get any pure powder here in this part of the world. i am using the pill type (which claimed is the pure VC tablet).

now, i dump the pills in the middle compartment of the sump and they melt down much slower. skimmer don't go nuts now.

it is normal to have the tank look a little cloudy when dose?

Paintguru · Mar 12, 2008

kiddboy said:
i can't get any pure powder here in this part of the world. i am using the pill type (which claimed is the pure VC tablet).

now, i dump the pills in the middle compartment of the sump and they melt down much slower. skimmer don't go nuts now.

it is normal to have the tank look a little cloudy when dose?

Mine has looked cloudy as well and I'm trying to figure out why/how long it lasts. I swear the last time I dosed (before I stopped for a few weeks) it cleared up, but I don't remember exactly when.