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Old 05-12-2012, 10:20 PM
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I have been dosing for many months now, but I don't dose a lot. I have seen improvement in the general health of my zoanthids. I was dosing more but if you dose too much you will start to see a white bacteria film on everything. This is detrimental to most gorgonian that just close up and do molt after molt.

I had to reduce to a very minimal dose so that my gorgonians would stay open. All of them are photosynthetic. No other coral have any adverse reaction to vitamin C. I think what the gorgonians don't like it's not the vitamin C but rather the biofilm that build up on them so they then need to molt to get clean again, and it's alot of energy wasted to molt all the time. Since I reduced the dose they rarely molt.

I now dose NoPoX and I see no adverse effect on dosing NoPoX and vitamin C together. I dose around 1 gram of sodium ascorbate in my 70 gallons per day.
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