acropower users

[duberz]

Do you dose each day or once a week like directions say?Also the directions don't say anything about turning off the skimmer or other equiptment.Do you?

 

[domvert]

just started to dose this week- I am doing daily calculated doses instead of 1 weekly dose.

 

[hedgedrew]

Me too been doing it for about 2 months now. Once daily in am. O don't shut anything off.

 

[Tangaroa]

I dose it via a dosing pump twice a day and the skimmer goes off for 1 hour each time after. I'm not buying the stuff and then skimming it out...it's too expensive.

 

[bertoni]

It seems to be an amino acid supplement, so I'd use a countdown timer to shut the skimmer off for an hour or so after dosing, but I'm not sure how necessary that is. The skimmer might take a while to remove the amino acids.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Some amino acids (the very hydrophilic and charged ones, e.g., glycine, lysine, arginine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, serine, etc.) won't be removed by skimming at all. The more hydrophobic ones (e.g., phenylalanine, leucine, isoleucine) might be. I'm not sure what they put into these mixtures.

IMO, it is not obviously better to dose less of it more frequently, or more of it less frequently as I can see arguments either way. Trial and error is probably the only way to know what works best (and whether it has any beneficial impact at all).