Artificial PUFA rich in animal protein? Interesting Goniopora Study

[Miami Reef]

Is there anything about the ingredients on the back of the bottle?

No. I wish. I posted a picture of the back of the bottle.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Keep us updated!

 

[Swip]

Could it maybe be purple non-sulfur bacteria? There are quite a few videos online of people culturing these bacteria with eggs and fish oil. Not sure if that could explain the polyunsaturated fatty acids and protein.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

How goes the feeding?

 

[Miami Reef]

How goes the feeding?

I think it’s too soon to say. I think a lot of the corals enjoy the food. They visibly puff up. I think one of my prized Goni are getting more polyps, but it’s too soon to say. I hope it survives.

 

[xiaoxiy]

I wonder how this compares to EasyReef products (EasySPS and EasyBooster), which reportedly has a high content of PUFA as well.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I think it’s too soon to say. I think a lot of the corals enjoy the food. They visibly puff up. I think one of my prized Goni are getting more polyps, but it’s too soon to say. I hope it survives.

OK, sounds reasonable.

 

[Miami Reef]

Hey Randy,

This product seems to cause some acropora to have tissue necrosis. When I was dosing it during the beginning of this thread, I noticed some STN happening. I sent an ICP and I saw absolutely nothing that would cause STN.

I stopped the product after losing an acro, and everything did fine. I tried again last week, and my Oregon tort seemingly got bald patches overnight.

I have no idea if it’s from this product, but I’m not going to dose it ever again.

 

[Miami Reef]

Oh, and I didn’t see any benefit to the Goniopora that were dying either. The aquacultured ones are doing well without dosing. The wild ones didn’t.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Hey Randy,

This product seems to cause some acropora to have tissue necrosis. When I was dosing it during the beginning of this thread, I noticed some STN happening. I sent an ICP and I saw absolutely nothing that would cause STN.

I stopped the product after losing an acro, and everything did fine. I tried again last week, and my Oregon tort seemingly got bald patches overnight.

I have no idea if it’s from this product, but I’m not going to dose it ever again.

Thanks for the update. Doesn’t sound good. Maybe it is driving undesirable bacteria growing on the coral, or something bad happens internally to the coral when it digests it.

 

[Miami Reef]

Thanks for the update. Doesn’t sound good. Maybe it is driving undesirable bacteria growing on the coral, or something bad happens internally to the coral when it digests it.

Does this study give any insight?

There was a negative correlation between growth and total lipid concentration, indicating that Acropora corals have a low tolerance for lipid-rich diets.

High dietary lipid contents depress captive Acropora coral growth.

This study evaluated the efficacy of seven unique feeding strategies for Acropora loripes, Acropora millepora, and Acropora tenuis nubbins: a novel, micro-bound diet (ATF), a novel, dissolved diet rich in long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) (LONG), a novel, dissolved diet lacking in LC-PUFA (SHORT), a phytoplankton diet of Isochrysis galbana (ALG), co-feeding of LONG and ALG (COMB), unfiltered seawater (RAW), and an unfed treatment of filtered seawater only (CTL).

Elucidating an optimal diet for captive Acropora corals

Developing an optimal heterotrophic feeding regime has the potential to improve the growth and overall health of captive corals. This study evaluated …

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