Fauna Marin's Reef Vitality

[honkit]

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.

[linko]

Thanks for your Sharing

Would you mind to share some picture of yours?

[peacemaker]

Before & after pics would be nice.

[honkit]

Thanks for your Sharing Would you mind to share some picture of yours?

See my tank thread.

[Evolutionz]

who else using reef vitality? plan to get my bottle soon..

[sherman]

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?

[yellowtang]

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

[weekdaywarrior]

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.

[surreal1228]

IT can be overdosed. Stop. Or cut a half ur color. Elements

[sherman]

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

[Evolutionz]

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

[FuEl]

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.

[sherman]

Hi Bro Fuel,

So I should reduce trace elements dosing

[FuEl]

Hi Bro Fuel,

So I should reduce trace elements dosing

Yes, the instructions on Reef Vitality recommend drastically reducing both trace element & amino acid supplementation.

[Admiraltian]

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.

[surreal1228]

I stopped also. Feel very hard to desolve it.... look forward to the liquid version

[honkit]

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.

[Admiraltian]

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?

[sherman]

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?

[jxlex]

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...

[sherman]

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

[sherman]

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

[youdontnowm]

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

[Admiraltian]

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

Better to reduce dosage amt if using both products together.

[jxlex]

Was reading some where best to dose on separate days... Cant be ultimately sure though