Acropower Results Documented

How do you taste on accident? And also this stuff made my tank break out with Dino's but it was working good for PE and so so for color
 
Acropower tastes like sugar. I accidentally tasted it.

Lets us know if your color improves! :bounce1:

Yep, I loathe sitting in the sun to get tanned...won't do it...but if I could get some quick and easy amino acid tanning, well then...:D

Niacin works for about thirty minutes. Nice bumpy red glow lol

I think that is just the spoon fulll of sugar...they needed something to help the medicine go down ;)

I was wondering if he was getting good polyp extension..... :lol:
 
I've been using Acropower on an off for the last few months. I already had great PE and colors were good overall so I didn't see much of a difference. I have one coral in particular that I really notice a difference in from dosing, and that's my captive grown hoeksemi. This coral is a teal blue color, when I dose it almost looks fake because the color becomes so saturated.

Initially, I began dosing this in an immature system and it caused a huge cyano outbreak, which subsided as the system matured. Just something to keep in mind in newer systems.
 
Interesting read. I don't think there's any real difference between using fresh ingredients and buying a decent brand of frozen food. IMO, if someone finds a coral goes from poor colouration to good when they try one of these new methods/brands, it's probably because the didn't know what they were doing in the first place and they've inadvertently fixed something that was wrong.

My own tank has excellent colour SPS, amazing growth (Monti Digi going from frag to 2ft wide piece in 12 months). Massive bright pink seris, acros etc. etc. And my system is:

super low phosphates via Rowaphos; some iodine addition but not as high as 0.06ppm, close to water T5 lighting, good skimming, a tiny amount of ozone, live rock and that's all.

Nitrate level has been 20-30ppm for over 2 years now, as I like my big fish. I feed a lot, but never feed the corals. Every morning I tip in a huge amount of buffer, every evening a huge amount of calcium, and watch it swing!

How many rules did I break there?
 
Interesting read. I don't think there's any real difference between using fresh ingredients and buying a decent brand of frozen food. IMO, if someone finds a coral goes from poor colouration to good when they try one of these new methods/brands, it's probably because the didn't know what they were doing in the first place and they've inadvertently fixed something that was wrong.

My own tank has excellent colour SPS, amazing growth (Monti Digi going from frag to 2ft wide piece in 12 months). Massive bright pink seris, acros etc. etc. And my system is:

super low phosphates via Rowaphos; some iodine addition but not as high as 0.06ppm, close to water T5 lighting, good skimming, a tiny amount of ozone, live rock and that's all.

Nitrate level has been 20-30ppm for over 2 years now, as I like my big fish. I feed a lot, but never feed the corals. Every morning I tip in a huge amount of buffer, every evening a huge amount of calcium, and watch it swing!

How many rules did I break there?

I think your buffer has acropower in it!. :bounce1:

Any pics of your tank?

Thanks
Mo
 
haha re-reading my post I sound like a really arrogant *****, sorry about that, I was in a rush late last night, and when I'm direct, I'm too direct :-)

The tank's dark at the moment, here's some from about a year ago...

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I went ahead and ordered a bottle. I'll be running a ulns. Once the coral turn pale I'll dose and see how much it helps. I'll post daily pics for comparison
 
I decided to work it the opposite way. I dosed Acropower daily per the directions for 3 months, then stopped altogether to see if I saw any color change in the SPS. I saw no color changes for the worse or the better.

There was an article in Advanced Reefkeeping earlier this year about amino acids and corals.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2014/3/corals

What I took from the article is that amino acid supplementation is basically feeding the corals, and you might see some increased growth from AA supplementation, and color improvement may come if the AA addition provides something missing from the coral's diet. But the article was not conclusive about any color improvements.

Personally, in a reef that us provided a varied diet that either gives the corals what they need to synthesize required AAs and those they cannot, I don't think you will see color improvement. If the addition of AAs corrects a nutritional deficiency, then you might.

But, I don't consider increased polyp extension as anything indicating a product is good or not. It simply means the corals are feeding.
 
I decided to work it the opposite way. I dosed Acropower daily per the directions for 3 months, then stopped altogether to see if I saw any color change in the SPS. I saw no color changes for the worse or the better.

There was an article in Advanced Reefkeeping earlier this year about amino acids and corals.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2014/3/corals

What I took from the article is that amino acid supplementation is basically feeding the corals, and you might see some increased growth from AA supplementation, and color improvement may come if the AA addition provides something missing from the coral's diet. But the article was not conclusive about any color improvements.

Personally, in a reef that us provided a varied diet that either gives the corals what they need to synthesize required AAs and those they cannot, I don't think you will see color improvement. If the addition of AAs corrects a nutritional deficiency, then you might.

But, I don't consider increased polyp extension as anything indicating a product is good or not. It simply means the corals are feeding.

This makes total sense, it gives it the missing nutrition it needs.

My daughter is going to add to this thread. With her browned out piece she picked up for her ulns. She dipped in Bayer and had about 8 bugs come out.

She's dosing 1ml a day in a 20g.completly brown, No polyp s and no signs of growth. Her parameters were perfect to begin with so I don't know if this is a accurate test. Once and if it does color up/grow I can ask her to stop dosing and see the outcome.

 
I never used amino acids before so I thought what the heck and give it a try:worried: After one week of dosing the recommended amount AcroPower I got some very noticeable results in a few of my corals in both the display and sump.
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I'm bumping this due to another Acropower thread being started. Any additional long term usage thoughts, or pictures? Has anyone else tasted it? :lol2:
 
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