Dosing aspartic acid

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

What role does the skimmerless factor plays here? How relevant is it?

Two concerns. One is aeration. Adding organic carbon consumes O2 and produces CO2 (lowering pH). Without a skimmer, those issues are more of a concern, but can be minimal if the dose is low.

The second is what happens to the bacteria that eat some of the aspartic acid and multiply. That is an experiment, IMO, but not necessarily "risky", especially at low doses.

 

[acorral]

Been readin something similar on a skimmerless thread here at reefcentral but still nothing conclusive, guess I'm joining to the experiment...

 

[macdaddynick1]

Lets resurrect this thread. I guess I am the only person in 2020 still wondering about DIY Aminos. Looks like some people had good results from dosing Aspartic Acid, also seems like the results were pretty quick. Any updates? Anyone have been dosing it long term or is it a temporary solution to boost growth? Anyone still experimenting with this? Also after doing some research, it. looks like ME aminos consists of Aspartic and Glutamic Acids.
I just threw in my first dose of Aspartic and Glutamic acids wish me luck. =) I am going to try to dose it once per week any see if there is any positive or negative change.