Potassium Dosing For SPS Blue and Purple Coloration?

[Hiker4twenty]

Does anyone dose potassium for their SPS? I've read that proper potassium levels can help intensify the blue and purple pigments in SPS corals. Any truth to this?

I forgot to include this in the title. I have a friend that doses Vitamine C to help with his coral health. He said it's supposed to help coloration as well becasue the corals are more healthy. Any truth to this either?

 

[yote]

I've read the same thing,but havnt tryed it.

 

[reeffreak]

I read the long thread on RC about vitamin C.Some says it works and some says it did nothing.Never read or heard about potassium,though.

 

[Hiker4twenty]

I did some more research last night and keep getting confilicting reports. There is a lot of info in RC about it. I might give it a try and see what happens. I'll be sure to update this thread if I do go down that road.

 

[ccCapt]

Dave, you going for the Zeo type system? Potassium is 1 of the many supplements zeo tanks use.

You can get tons of info about those types of system here.
Home - Zeovit

 

[Hiker4twenty]

Thanks Larry. The reason I was asking about it is becasue Kelvin was talking about dosing potassium and vitamin-c. So I decided to do some research. I did stumble upon some Zeovit threads on RC which are quite contradictory and all ended in arguements. Go figure on RC...lol

Have you every experimented with that type of dosing?

 

[ccCapt]

I've never dosed anything besides baking soda, calcium and mag. I won't dose anything I don't test for and I only test for the 3 things I dose. I like to keep it simple. ;)

 

[Hiker4twenty]

I just read the English Guide to Zeovit and it seems really complicated and adding tons of stuff to your tank. It all seems good in theory, but I don't see any concrete proof that it actually works.

 

[yote]

Out of all the zeovit tanks I've seen,the colors of the corals all looked washed out to me.Yeah,they got decent growth out of em,but the color just wasnt there.