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I'm familiar with Selcon as a food additive, but what's the theory with dosing it to the tank water?
From what I can tell, it's fatty acids + vitamins. Seems like more of a carbon source, but not sure what the breakdown path of fatty acids in the water column would be.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=coral+uptake+"fatty+acid"
There are some goodies in there, but I'm out of reading time for tonight. Will take a look tomorrow.
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Selcon likely stays as particulate organic matter and may be taken up in that fashion.