Fulvodracon - concentrated fulvic and humic acids

Essential humic substances for the inhabitants of your aquarium

• Contains important fulvic and humic acids
• Contributes to increasing agility and well-being
• For acclimatisation and regular operation
• Suitable for all aquarium inhabitants

With Fulvodrakon you have the opportunity to add important humic and fulvic acids to the aquarium water and thus create near-natural and species-appropriate conditions for the aquarium inhabitants. Humic substances are found in varying quantities in practically all natural living waters*. Particularly well known are black water-habitats are particularly well known for their extraordinarily high concentrations of humic substances (humic substances are responsible for their tea-like colouring), but they are also found in abundance in other types of water. However, our waterworks remove these substances almost completely from the tap water supplied because of their colouring and flavouring properties.

However, no aquarium should be without humic substances. Their positive properties on aquatic life, the increase in vitality, colourfulness and well-being have now been scientifically proven many times over. So if they are missing in the original water, we should definitely add them.

Effect

Humic and fulvic acids contribute to species-appropriate husbandry. As they are present in almost every environment in nature, aquatic organisms are adapted to them and even low concentrations, which are barely visible in the water, have positive effects. In experiments with daphnia, it has been proven that the reproduction rate and mobility can be increased as an indicator of well-being.

An increasing number of recent studies on humic substances have shown an extraordinary range of positive effects on living organisms. They are based, for example, on the deactivation of toxins as insoluble complexes or on the fact that cell membranes and mucous membranes are blocked for harmful substances by fulvic and humic acids. In this way, vitality, colourfulness and well-being can be increased, reproduction stimulated, the survival rate of offspring improved and healthy growth achieved in general.
In addition to these indirect effects, more and more direct positive effects on organisms are also being discovered. These include the strengthening of the immune system and direct antiviral properties. In the aquarium, microbiology is improved because pathogenic pathogens, bacteria, viruses and fungi are inhibited.
In addition, humic substances are still weak buffers and stabilise the pH even at low carbonate hardness.

Prof. Dr Christian Steinberg (Chair of Aquatic Ecology at the Humboldt University of Berlin), a profound expert on this subject, considers them indispensable in aquaristics anyway. While in classical ecology it was still assumed that humic substances only had an indirect influence on animals, their direct effect on organisms and their almost vital character have now been proven.

Literature

Prof. Dr Christian Steinberg, D. Ralph Menzel; Humic substances - dead material highly active, studies on vital brown geopolymers (1); Aquaristik Fachmagazin No. 205 (41), 02/03 2009, 64 - 69.
Prof. Dr Christian Steinberg, D. Ralph Menzel; Humic substances - dead material highly active, studies on vital brown geopolymers (2); Aquaristik Fachmagazin No. 206 (41), 04/05 2009, 62 - 67.

Bibliography to the articles.

Dosage

For ongoing maintenance weekly after changing the water

• 3 - 7 ml per 100 litres of water

For blackwater tanks, in the quarantine of new arrivals and to support disease treatment weekly

• 10 - 20 ml per 100 litres of water

Composition

The natural raw material for Fulvodrakon is carefully extracted from a groundwater source. This results in good suitability for aquaristics and aquaculture as well as significantly better bioavailability than chemically extracted fulvic acids.

Crude ash: 14 %, humic acid: 2 %, fulvic acid: 17.5 %, sodium: 37,500 mg/kg

After adding 1 ml of fulvodracon to 10 litres of water, it therefore contains 17.5 mg/l of fulvic acid and 2 mg/l of humic acid

* Part of the substance group known as TOC (Total Organic Content)