Revitalization of Zoas

[blizzardscout2]

Recently my zoas were not doing very well, all closed up for no reason that I could assess. All parameters were in check and I could not figure out why they were so peeved? So I was told to try Vitamarin-C, a Brightwell Aquatics product, to help them and then perform a dip if that did not work. It was a night and day difference over night, and for my other corals as well. Unfortunately I did not take any photos, but I am sure you can use your imagination. Anyone else have similar experiences?

 

Reese

[mmelnick]

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

[organism]

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

 

lol

 

Have you checked your salinity and how are you measuring it? They'll do that sometimes if the salinity's too high...

[Jacobnano]

Did you do the dip or just the Vitamarin-C dosing?

[Urchinhead]

Damn Organism you beat me to that!

[mmelnick]

Fine, NOT thanks for sharing I guess...

 

 

But really, I like hearing about things like this. I'd never think to use a vitamin C dip for zoas.

[blizzardscout2]

My salinity has been in check, around 1.024. I did not perform a dip with Coral Rx or with the Vitamarin-C either. Both were suggested, but they also told me just to add to the tank first and see if that would be enough, and then perform a Vitamarin-C dip on them for five minutes with a PH for circulation.

[organism]

Dip time

 

If you don't have coral rx then iodine works fairly well.

[montipora]

Dip time

 

If you don't have coral rx then iodine works fairly well.

 

I have been told by numerous LFS employees(the ones I trust) that those coral dips are just less concentrated forms of iodine, is that true? If so, isn't it just cheaper to by some iodine and dilute it?

[kamikaze_fish]

I have been told by numerous LFS employees(the ones I trust) that those coral dips are just less concentrated forms of iodine, is that true? If so, isn't it just cheaper to by some iodine and dilute it?

 

Definitely interested to hear more about this. If it's true, then how much dilution?

[organism]

I have been told by numerous LFS employees(the ones I trust) that those coral dips are just less concentrated forms of iodine, is that true? If so, isn't it just cheaper to by some iodine and dilute it?

 

I can't say for certain, so I don't want to make any statements one way or the other. I know that tropic marin's pro coral cure kills acro eating flatworms and I'm not sure if lugol's does so or not, there's probably some antibiotics in a few of the dips too. If there's any chemists there's probably a fairly easy way to tell if there's stuff other than iodine through a few tests like evaporation and boiling points, I'd love to see if it can be done, like the guy that evaporated the "marine snow" stuff and found out that it was like 99% water.

 

From personal experience a dip with lugol's combined with a furan-2 capsule will cure just about any zoanthid issues, for nudis you can dip them in flatworm exit. I used TMPCC and liked it for acros, but who knows, it was worth the peace of mind on those. There's a lot of reef additives and supplies that are overpriced bs, like the two part epoxies at the LFS that are $20 are the same as the $4 aquamend epoxy at home depot.