Amino Acid

[Allmost]

Hello my friends.

quick Q. is Amino acid for fish, the same thing as amino acid for corals ?

or are they actually different ingredients ?

thanks.

 

[Dr. Reef]

amino acids are basically proteins and they are same for fish and corals.

 

[disc1]

There are 20 amino acids used to make proteins. 21 if you count selenocysteine. They are the same for all organisms with a few very rare exceptions. Most living things can manufacture the majority themselves without any need to take them in. Many organisms (including us) cannot manufacture a few of the amino acids on the list and must consume them with our food. Those are called essential amino acids, and the list is different for different animals based on the foods they're evolved to eat.

So it is the same amino acids, but a formulation for fish and a formulation for corals may be different.

 

[bertoni]

Right. A protein basically is a collection of chains of amino acids. I don't recall which amino acids corals often can't synthesize, but I thought aspartic acid was one of the ones commonly cited.

 

[Big E]

Corals amino synthesis paper----

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1218179/pdf/9078264.pdf

 

[Allmost]

thank you guys amazing info as always

really appreciate the paper Big Ed