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Having used Fauna Marin's new supplement Reef Vitality for 2 months, I will pen my opinions on it. First of, Reef Vitality is marketed as something unique i.e. a compound of coral food, supplements and in the words of Fauna Marin's owner, something called "organic biopolymers".

All this is a little over my head but the proof is in the pudding and having used Fauna Marin's other products with success, I decided to try it.

The stuff is packed into small capsules just like the vitamins that you take. One has to open the capsule and dump the powdery contents into a small container filled up with your tank water before giving it a good stir and pouring it back into your tank.

I use one capsule every four days for my tank which is 400 litres in total tank volume.

The effects were initially mixed when I dosed Reef Color Elements (another FM product) on the same day as Reef Vitality - this resulted in bare patches in some of my SPS corals as flesh was stripped but no STN or RTN occured.

Hence, it is advised that one should dose reef color elements on a seperate day from the day you dose reef vitality.

After 2 months, the overall health and colour of the majority of my SPS corals has improved, particularly for my pink table millepora and red table hyacinthus. My centrepiece which is a Fiji tricolour valida was looking good too until recently when I reduced my salinity a little too fast and the colour "ran" - hopefully it will get back to its old colouration with time and some TLC.

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When I dose Reef vitality with color element, some of the SPS like red, green monti and some of the SPS turn white.

Anyone experience this?

Will the white patch go off ?

And how long it take to revert back to original color?

6.5 * 2 * 2 + 3.75 * 1.5 *1.5,(Decomn on 14/9/08)
4*2*2 + 2.5*1.25*1.25 (Decomn on 1/8/09)
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2.5*2*2(Fully LED Light System,96 3 watt SSC leds with 60 degree lens)(Decomm)

5*2.5*2(LED only)

Eheim return 1 * pump

1 HP Daikin compressor with cooling coil
2 Jebao OW40, 1 ecotech MP40,
1X6085 Tunze wm,

1 CURVE 7 Skimmer

  1 DIY 80 led control by Bluefish mini 

1 radion XR30W G2, 2 Radion XR15G3

Sump area lite by 5 ft T5 , 6 * SSC 3 watt red LED for refugium

1 Full spectrum E27 led light

1 CR control by bubble count

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When I dose Reef vitality with color element, some of the SPS like red, green monti and some of the SPS turn white.

Anyone experience this?

Will the white patch go off ?

And how long it take to revert back to original color?

I don't use this product but other products of the same brand.

It's not right that the sps shd turned white after dosing. I would stop immediately. Better do a water change.

Yt

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Im also using reef vitality but have not experienced this. What I have experienced is diatom outbreak but now under control. I think an overdose of color elements was the reason for it. I used to dose 18ml per week of elements (still within the recommended dosage for a 100g tank). I still dose RV as per instructions but under/sparingly dose the color elements to 1.5ml/25g (purple/blue and purple/red) and temporarily stopped the blue/green for now since it contains iron that fuels algae growth.

How big is your tank and how much do you dose. As cautioned before, DO NOT dose vitality and elements on the same day. They should be dosed 2 days apart.

Good luck.

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I don't use this product but other products of the same brand.

It's not right that the sps shd turned white after dosing. I would stop immediately. Better do a water change.

Yt

I have stop for 2 days and do 10% water change

Hope everything will revert back

6.5 * 2 * 2 + 3.75 * 1.5 *1.5,(Decomn on 14/9/08)
4*2*2 + 2.5*1.25*1.25 (Decomn on 1/8/09)
5*2*2 (Fully LED light system, 140 3 watt SSC leds with 60 degree lens)(Decomm)
2.5*2*2(Fully LED Light System,96 3 watt SSC leds with 60 degree lens)(Decomm)

5*2.5*2(LED only)

Eheim return 1 * pump

1 HP Daikin compressor with cooling coil
2 Jebao OW40, 1 ecotech MP40,
1X6085 Tunze wm,

1 CURVE 7 Skimmer

  1 DIY 80 led control by Bluefish mini 

1 radion XR30W G2, 2 Radion XR15G3

Sump area lite by 5 ft T5 , 6 * SSC 3 watt red LED for refugium

1 Full spectrum E27 led light

1 CR control by bubble count

Start No Water Change since 1st Dec 2016

Add new 2.5x2x 1.5 ft 

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Since reef vitality helps to accelerate the uptake of nutrients. Could it be that the water nutrients was stripped and caused bleaching of sps?

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Since reef vitality helps to accelerate the uptake of nutrients. Could it be that the water nutrients was stripped and caused bleaching of sps?

The corals will take up trace elements & nutrients more rapidly, therefore you would need to cut down the regular dose if not the corals will be taking up too much trace elements. Your trace element supplements will in turn last much longer.

Always something more important than fish.

http://reefbuilders.com/2012/03/08/sps-pico-reef/

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Hi Bro Fuel,

So I should reduce trace elements dosing

6.5 * 2 * 2 + 3.75 * 1.5 *1.5,(Decomn on 14/9/08)
4*2*2 + 2.5*1.25*1.25 (Decomn on 1/8/09)
5*2*2 (Fully LED light system, 140 3 watt SSC leds with 60 degree lens)(Decomm)
2.5*2*2(Fully LED Light System,96 3 watt SSC leds with 60 degree lens)(Decomm)

5*2.5*2(LED only)

Eheim return 1 * pump

1 HP Daikin compressor with cooling coil
2 Jebao OW40, 1 ecotech MP40,
1X6085 Tunze wm,

1 CURVE 7 Skimmer

  1 DIY 80 led control by Bluefish mini 

1 radion XR30W G2, 2 Radion XR15G3

Sump area lite by 5 ft T5 , 6 * SSC 3 watt red LED for refugium

1 Full spectrum E27 led light

1 CR control by bubble count

Start No Water Change since 1st Dec 2016

Add new 2.5x2x 1.5 ft 

 nLekOfpYts.jpg
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Having used Fauna Marin's new supplement Reef Vitality for 2 months, I will pen my opinions on it. First of, Reef Vitality is marketed as something unique i.e. a compound of coral food, supplements and in the words of Fauna Marin's owner, something called "organic biopolymers". All this is a little over my head but the proof is in the pudding and having used Fauna Marin's other products with success, I decided to try it. The stuff is packed into small capsules just like the vitamins that you take. One has to open the capsule and dump the powdery contents into a small container filled up with your tank water before giving it a good stir and pouring it back into your tank. I use one capsule every four days for my tank which is 400 litres in total tank volume. The effects were initially mixed when I dosed Reef Color Elements (another FM product) on the same day as Reef Vitality - this resulted in bare patches in some of my SPS corals as flesh was stripped but no STN or RTN occured. Hence, it is advised that one should dose reef color elements on a seperate day from the day you dose reef vitality. After 2 months, the overall health and colour of the majority of my SPS corals has improved, particularly for my pink table millepora and red table hyacinthus. My centrepiece which is a Fiji tricolour valida was looking good too until recently when I reduced my salinity a little too fast and the colour "ran" - hopefully it will get back to its old colouration with time and some TLC.
I'm also encounter bald patches after I dose reef vitality & color elements on the same day. Will these bald patches recovered? I also encountered diatoms on the sand bed after dosing elements. Now I reducing dosage for each products.

Display Tank : 36" x 20" x 20" Herbie overflow box design, Sump : 36" x 21" x 17", Frag Tank : 16” x 20” x 16”, custom built by Tank Culture.

Lightings : Ecotech  Radion XR15 Pro x 2 for Main Display Tank, Inled R80 x 1 for Frag Tank.

Chiller : Dalkin 1hp compressor with build-in drop coil.

Skimmer : Skimz Octa SC205i Protein Skimmer.

FR : H2Ocean FMR75 Fluidised Media Reactor with Hailea HX-2500 (Feeder Pump) running Rowaphos.

CR : Skimz Monzter E Series CM122 Calcium Reactor.

BPR: Marine Source Biopellet  Reactor with Continuum Reef Biopellet Fuel. 

Main Return Pump : SICCE Syncra ADV 9.0 & Jebao ACQ-10000 Water Pump.

Wavemaker : Jebao MOW-9 x2 for Main Display Tank & Jebao SLW-20M  Sine Wave Pump for  Frag Tank.

Water Top Up: AutoAqua Smart ATO Lite.

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I'm also encounter bald patches after I dose reef vitality & color elements on the same day. Will these bald patches recovered? I also encountered diatoms on the sand bed after dosing elements. Now I reducing dosage for each products.

Some of the bald patches re-grew new flesh and some have not.

I reduced all dosing to 1/3rd of my previous regime.

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Some of the bald patches re-grew new flesh and some have not. I reduced all dosing to 1/3rd of my previous regime.
Reduced dosing as in color elements or RV?

Display Tank : 36" x 20" x 20" Herbie overflow box design, Sump : 36" x 21" x 17", Frag Tank : 16” x 20” x 16”, custom built by Tank Culture.

Lightings : Ecotech  Radion XR15 Pro x 2 for Main Display Tank, Inled R80 x 1 for Frag Tank.

Chiller : Dalkin 1hp compressor with build-in drop coil.

Skimmer : Skimz Octa SC205i Protein Skimmer.

FR : H2Ocean FMR75 Fluidised Media Reactor with Hailea HX-2500 (Feeder Pump) running Rowaphos.

CR : Skimz Monzter E Series CM122 Calcium Reactor.

BPR: Marine Source Biopellet  Reactor with Continuum Reef Biopellet Fuel. 

Main Return Pump : SICCE Syncra ADV 9.0 & Jebao ACQ-10000 Water Pump.

Wavemaker : Jebao MOW-9 x2 for Main Display Tank & Jebao SLW-20M  Sine Wave Pump for  Frag Tank.

Water Top Up: AutoAqua Smart ATO Lite.

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Its about a week after I stop dosing Reef Vitality and color elements.

About 30% to 40% of those white patch revert back. The balance still very

white but syill have PE.

Shall I start dosing RV again or wait for another week?

6.5 * 2 * 2 + 3.75 * 1.5 *1.5,(Decomn on 14/9/08)
4*2*2 + 2.5*1.25*1.25 (Decomn on 1/8/09)
5*2*2 (Fully LED light system, 140 3 watt SSC leds with 60 degree lens)(Decomm)
2.5*2*2(Fully LED Light System,96 3 watt SSC leds with 60 degree lens)(Decomm)

5*2.5*2(LED only)

Eheim return 1 * pump

1 HP Daikin compressor with cooling coil
2 Jebao OW40, 1 ecotech MP40,
1X6085 Tunze wm,

1 CURVE 7 Skimmer

  1 DIY 80 led control by Bluefish mini 

1 radion XR30W G2, 2 Radion XR15G3

Sump area lite by 5 ft T5 , 6 * SSC 3 watt red LED for refugium

1 Full spectrum E27 led light

1 CR control by bubble count

Start No Water Change since 1st Dec 2016

Add new 2.5x2x 1.5 ft 

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Think of RV as an appetite stimulant... When used, the take up of trace element becomes more efficient.

Essentially colour elements should be dose when encountering paling of colours...

Personally i started w RV and concurrently stop dosing colour elements until recently when i realise paling then i start again.

For UltraAmin same thing, my dosage drop to almost 30% of my previous dose...

:: just a noob ::

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I start dosing color element again. Hope the color will revert soon

6.5 * 2 * 2 + 3.75 * 1.5 *1.5,(Decomn on 14/9/08)
4*2*2 + 2.5*1.25*1.25 (Decomn on 1/8/09)
5*2*2 (Fully LED light system, 140 3 watt SSC leds with 60 degree lens)(Decomm)
2.5*2*2(Fully LED Light System,96 3 watt SSC leds with 60 degree lens)(Decomm)

5*2.5*2(LED only)

Eheim return 1 * pump

1 HP Daikin compressor with cooling coil
2 Jebao OW40, 1 ecotech MP40,
1X6085 Tunze wm,

1 CURVE 7 Skimmer

  1 DIY 80 led control by Bluefish mini 

1 radion XR30W G2, 2 Radion XR15G3

Sump area lite by 5 ft T5 , 6 * SSC 3 watt red LED for refugium

1 Full spectrum E27 led light

1 CR control by bubble count

Start No Water Change since 1st Dec 2016

Add new 2.5x2x 1.5 ft 

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Last nite I start dosing Reef Vitality again. Hope this time nothing happen.

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6.5 * 2 * 2 + 3.75 * 1.5 *1.5,(Decomn on 14/9/08)
4*2*2 + 2.5*1.25*1.25 (Decomn on 1/8/09)
5*2*2 (Fully LED light system, 140 3 watt SSC leds with 60 degree lens)(Decomm)
2.5*2*2(Fully LED Light System,96 3 watt SSC leds with 60 degree lens)(Decomm)

5*2.5*2(LED only)

Eheim return 1 * pump

1 HP Daikin compressor with cooling coil
2 Jebao OW40, 1 ecotech MP40,
1X6085 Tunze wm,

1 CURVE 7 Skimmer

  1 DIY 80 led control by Bluefish mini 

1 radion XR30W G2, 2 Radion XR15G3

Sump area lite by 5 ft T5 , 6 * SSC 3 watt red LED for refugium

1 Full spectrum E27 led light

1 CR control by bubble count

Start No Water Change since 1st Dec 2016

Add new 2.5x2x 1.5 ft 

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colour element and reef vit can be use together on a seperate day right ?

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| Cooling : 1HP titanium drop in coil ATO : JBJ

| Lighting : ATI Sunpower 8x54w + 48x cree xte royal blue Return : Jebao dc-6000

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colour element and reef vit can be use together on a seperate day right ?
Better to reduce dosage amt if using both products together.

Display Tank : 36" x 20" x 20" Herbie overflow box design, Sump : 36" x 21" x 17", Frag Tank : 16” x 20” x 16”, custom built by Tank Culture.

Lightings : Ecotech  Radion XR15 Pro x 2 for Main Display Tank, Inled R80 x 1 for Frag Tank.

Chiller : Dalkin 1hp compressor with build-in drop coil.

Skimmer : Skimz Octa SC205i Protein Skimmer.

FR : H2Ocean FMR75 Fluidised Media Reactor with Hailea HX-2500 (Feeder Pump) running Rowaphos.

CR : Skimz Monzter E Series CM122 Calcium Reactor.

BPR: Marine Source Biopellet  Reactor with Continuum Reef Biopellet Fuel. 

Main Return Pump : SICCE Syncra ADV 9.0 & Jebao ACQ-10000 Water Pump.

Wavemaker : Jebao MOW-9 x2 for Main Display Tank & Jebao SLW-20M  Sine Wave Pump for  Frag Tank.

Water Top Up: AutoAqua Smart ATO Lite.

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