You got me... It was on purpose.
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...
Acropower tastes like sugar. I accidentally tasted it.
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...
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
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 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.