Vitamin C dosing for zoanthids (I am clueless)

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i stopped dosing for a few days and my duncan coral opened right up. i added some more vitamin c and it instantly closed all of its 14 heads...
 

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i stopped dosing for a few days and my duncan coral opened right up. i added some more vitamin c and it instantly closed all of its 14 heads...

Give it time, may need to adjust.. Things acted a bit strange in my tank for a couple days but since then everything's been open and happy.. I've been steadily increasing my dosages and everything is happy..

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all the zoas in my tank are nice and huge and are multipling quickly. The only negatives so far is the purple haze monti pictured above and now i have a metorshower colony that the polyps wont open im going to continue to dose and see what happens. Ill try to get pics up tonight.
 

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Give it time, may need to adjust.. Things acted a bit strange in my tank for a couple days but since then everything's been open and happy.. I've been steadily increasing my dosages and everything is happy..

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what do you max your dosing at?? right now im dosing 1/2 tsp at around 5:00-6:00 than again around 10-11
 

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Give it time, may need to adjust.. Things acted a bit strange in my tank for a couple days but since then everything's been open and happy.. I've been steadily increasing my dosages and everything is happy..

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It has been closed for over a week of dosing. Its one of my favorites and I grew it from 2 heads to 14. Don't want to lose it.

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what do you max your dosing at?? right now im dosing 1/2 tsp at around 5:00-6:00 than again around 10-11

I have about 40 gallons total system volume. I did 1/4 tsp at 7 am and 7 pm for a week then bumped up to 1/2 tsp. I just got some acans, an ora bop, and a green mille. I'm going g to take a week off and let them settle in then I may start again at 1/4 tsp twice a day.

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It has been closed for over a week of dosing. Its one of my favorites and I grew it from 2 heads to 14. Don't want to lose it.

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Oh. That's a while to be closed, not familiar with Duncan's really but that seems like enough time to start worrying.. Have you changed anything else recently?

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only the vitamin c dosing has been different. today is day two of not dosing and they duncan is opening.
 

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I will be posting AFTER pics soon. I started dosing June 14th. Looking back at the before pics in this thread, what a difference! I'm glad I took them, CRAZY growth!!!
 

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The growth on these has been mind boggling!!! So much so, that I have to take a pic from 3 different angles to show all the growth.

WOW! Palys (started as a 2 polyp frag a month ago)


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If you'll reference page 27, the before pic of these WOW Palys is located there. I tried to attach the before pic, but that obviously didn't workout.
 

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i started dosing again, and this time around my duncan is staying happy and open. when dosing i don;t have to clean my glass as much and my skimmer works way better. so glad my duncan is staying open so far this time around.
 

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Ok finally got some pics.

Here is before i had these zoas for about 3 months and never got any good growth. (im sorry about this HORRIBLE pic this was before the DSLR)

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Here is a new picture after the vitamin c dosing i would say its been a month or so i would have to look back in this thread:

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They have at least DOUBLED in heads!!! Im a fan!
 

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I recently discontinued using vitamin c.... At the beginning I was seeing amazing growth and color but after a couple of months of using it I started having things close up and some of my LPS losing a little bit of color. I also starting having an algae out break. In the week I haven't been using it everything started opening up again..... It may be that my skimmer isn't powerful enough for my bio load... I ordered a nano reef systems skimmer yesterday and want to see if that one pans out to be better than the tunze that I currently have
 

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Hi I just finished reading this whole thread and I am convinced that VC is beneficial to aquariums I have a mostly zoa's and a few LPS corals in a 45 gallon aquarium I didn't calculate the live rock and stuff but I am gonna order the stuff puffer punk recommended I'm just confused on how much to dose the system?
 

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I also wanted to know if dosing vitamin C will reduce the amount of nitrates and phosphates in the water?
 

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