my SPS montiporas went white after dosing aminoacids
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I thought the same but after using it twice (same steps) my montiporas went white, in other words the first time I tried it my montiporas loose color specially my green ones, then the second time I added aminoacids about a week later it went totally white, so that's why I didn't know what bleached my corals but after two times I got the conclusion that was due to aminoacids, I haven't used aminoacids in a while since the bleaching and now they are slowly recovering.
Diesel3443
AEFW Distructor
Aminos usually darken coral, not lighten them up.
What you are dosing is not just aminos. If I had to guess, it would be the copper and the manganese that is lightening up the coral
how much did you dose and what is your tank volume? Are you dosing anything else?
What you are dosing is not just aminos. If I had to guess, it would be the copper and the manganese that is lightening up the coral
how much did you dose and what is your tank volume? Are you dosing anything else?
My tank is a ~20 gallon tank (24 inches long, 16 inches height, 11 inches depth + 4 inches sump / refugium at the back )
I was also dosing Phytoplanton but just tiny parts about 25 ml or even less but if my mind didn't cheat on me the last time I just added aminoacids alone.
The dosage of the aminoacids were one full cap or less according to seachem instructions.
I was also dosing Phytoplanton but just tiny parts about 25 ml or even less but if my mind didn't cheat on me the last time I just added aminoacids alone.
The dosage of the aminoacids were one full cap or less according to seachem instructions.
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Is this the stuff?
https://www.amazon.com/Seachem-67105330-Reef-Plus-500ml/dp/B000256AAM
If so it has more than just aminos in it... If this isn't the right stuff post a link to the one your using
https://www.amazon.com/Seachem-67105330-Reef-Plus-500ml/dp/B000256AAM
If so it has more than just aminos in it... If this isn't the right stuff post a link to the one your using
That has lots of other stuff in it besides aminos. My guess is something else is causing you grief. Get "acro power " if you want just aminos
Right now after this catastrophic event I'm thinking again about using aminoacids, probably I'm not gonna use them again ever but I was wondering why this happened to my tank.
MrSandman
Team RC
I did the same thing as you but with Brightwell Coral Amino about 7 years ago and it browned out almost everything in my tank in about 1-2 days. Took over a month for things to regain their colors. Bleaching (which is usually a sign of stress) seems odd for just a minor overdose of aminos.
organism
code monkey
What you're overlooking is the product you were using wasn't amino acids, it just among a ton of other things also contains a small amount of amino acids. Some of those other things bleached your corals because dosing things you can't test for is usually not a good plan and now you've learned why that is. Your catastrophic event had 0.000% to do with amino acids.
So why they added those other things?
The problem is I don't know what of the other things did the bleaching so for now at least I won't be using this product again.
I got 0 nitrates and 0 phosphates, if I add food then the phosphates appear depending on the amount of food added but just a few hours later I got no phosphates again.
After months of fighting with my bleached corals I've found why seachem bleached mines, the reason was that I had dinoflagellates so when adding Seachem Reef Plus the dinos where consuming the product instead of the corals.
With the combination of 0.00 nitrates (yes salifert doesn't even tints a little bit the water) and the presence of dinos it bleached instead of feeding the corals.
With the combination of 0.00 nitrates (yes salifert doesn't even tints a little bit the water) and the presence of dinos it bleached instead of feeding the corals.
