Best Amino Acids

[JBNY]

If N is low AA might be helpful, but even then I would rather just dose Nitrates, better uptake, better control, fewer secondary blooms. I found AA did trigger cyano in my system, this was way back like 10 years ago , but the products are still the same.

 

[BQ5]

I’ve tried a few and am really starting to think frozen fish food slurries are enough for my tank. Maybe slightly more PE with aminos but you’re also looking for it. And not necessarily more than frozen food or coral foods.

Yeah I do think that we get a lot (if not all) the necessary amino acids from just normal feeding. It would be interesting if someone could try and replicate the BRS video to know for sure.

 

[BQ5]

I have a nano that is on a Hydros system, so I utilize that. Since I’m only changing 600ml a day, I is those skinny 1.25 gallon jugs which gives me 1 week of water changes. This gives me just over 1% of the water changed per day. I played around with the amount, and finally settled on 600ml as a happy middle ground.

Great stuff! How's the tank coming along. I'd love to see some pictures since nano's have a special place in my heart lol

 

[BQ5]

I use brightwell coralamino. Not for growth or coloration but I find it helps LPS corals grow flesh. Specifically damaged or recently fragged ones. Only “evidence” I have is that I used to have a 2g pico. No filtration or dosing, just an airpump. I had a hammer coral that was almost killed due to fragging. Like 1-2 weeks after starting dosing aminos, the hammer was starting to grow new tentacles where it had otherwise just been stable. All else aside, it was the only thing I changed during that time period and I did see a noticeable difference. With no filtration, dosing, and a consistent routine up to that point I definitely did see a difference that I correlate to the aminos. Agreed that excess aminos will cause cyano but only at a certain dose and its pretty easy to just dial it back to avoid that. I used to dose right up to the point of cyano, using cyano as an indicator that I had too much.

1/3 head of a cracked hammer coral:

Hammer after a few months:

Very compelling if you ask me. Also, you're hammer's look great

 

[ColorMeGone]

I manually dose 2.5 ml of AquaVitro Fuel a week. (7gals of water). I.25 ml on Wed. and 1.25 ml on Sat. Been doing it for over a year and everything looks great but I have no idea if it works or not. Lol I also change 3 cups of water per day.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Have you watched this?




I’m generally skeptical of amino acid products, but this made me stop and think. That said, BRS has an incentive to sell it.

I don’t watch videos since it’s excessively time consuming, but unless the test tanks had plenty of available N from fish and other sources, I would attribute the effect to providing N.

 

[BQ5]

I don’t watch videos since it’s excessively time consuming, but unless the test tanks had plenty of available N from fish and other sources, I would attribute the effect to providing N.

Yeah this is what I was thinking too. I don't know if they accounted for this variable in both the control and test.