SBB- Spring Fling Blowout

[ReeferZ1227]

Is that sbb berry cake?

 

[evilexotica]

This your concoction?

 

[ryshark]

Instead of mixing bacteria, food, enzyme, and carbon in the tank through standard dosing, you essentially mix it in a container. The enzyme breaks down the food, bacteria consume and multiply, you dose that. Essentially zeovit without starving your coral to death. You can increase/decrease nutrients based on adding more or less food to the concotion.

Allan vo has a thread on it here:

Some of my Acro Collection

Is this from direct feeding or from broadcast feedings? Primarily broadcast feeding. I just dumped the food over the torch first

www.reef2reef.com

It's the wild wild west, everyone's trying different stuff. I'm not sure I've read about a single tank that hasn't responded positively. Since I've had so many changes in a short amount of time I can't really act as a control but things I've noticed over the past month:
-Growth tips are thicker
-growth tips aren't as "burnt" and bring skin faster
-new colors on old pieces
-even faster growth
-wirey growth on fast growers like millis is now more full and thicker growth
-thicker flesh
-significantly better PE across the board.
-growth on the entire coral (i.e. existing coralites not just tips)

Perhaps my tank was just nutrient deprived and this "superfood" resolves that and could have been resolved through other means as well.

I dose enough reefroids in the concotion to nuke my tank. Perhaps the bacteria allows you to dose insane nutrients without crazy residuals as I haven't seen my po4 go up as much as it would just dosing a fraction of the roids I use in the concotion. Heavy in/heavy out.

How often are you concocting?

 

[ryshark]

I have no idea what conoction you all talking about. I just mix phyto, acropower, benefreef, and oyster feast and feed.

That is missing the key ingredient... bacteria.

 

[ReeferZ1227]

How often are you concocting?

I'm hitting it hard. I make a budget bottle with bacter7, af np pro, roids, fuel, and calcium carbonate. 100-150ml/day (1 or 2 feedings). 125g + 20 gal frag tank.

Then I alternate, a separate batch with biodigest bacteria, instead of bacter7, because of cost.

Both seem to benefit the tank. Not dialed in yet but nutes are still fairly low (.03po4/5ppm no3)

 

[ryshark]

I get those long filamentous feeding polyps when I concoct too:

 

[Thuan]

That is missing the key ingredient... bacteria.

Ho do I include that, bacter 7. I'm a noob

 

[Kasrift]

I'm hitting it hard. I make a budget bottle with bacter7, af np pro, roids, fuel, and calcium carbonate. 100-150ml/day (1 or 2 feedings). 125g + 20 gal frag tank.

Then I alternate, a separate batch with biodigest bacteria, instead of bacter7, because of cost.

Both seem to benefit the tank. Not dialed in yet but nutes are still fairly low (.03po4/5ppm no3)

This what you are doing @billyocean ?

 

[ryshark]

Ho do I include that, bacter 7. I'm a noob

I forgot, you are also missing another key ingredient... Enzymes

 

[ReeferZ1227]

That is missing the key ingredient... bacteria.

My buddy ordered some of the v3 paste from Allan, shipped yesterday so I'm interested to see how his tank responds.

 

[ReeferZ1227]

This what you are doing @billyocean ?

He uses zeozym for the enzyme, I use np pro because of cost + amazon shipping + BRS out of stock.

Unsure of the rest of his recipe. Zeozym seems to be the standard for the enzyme.

I think Allan is trying to move away from "reef products" the same way we can use Mrs wages pickling lime instead of seachem kalkwasser at a fat premium in cost.

 

[ryshark]

My buddy ordered some of the v3 paste from Allan, shipped yesterday so I'm interested to see how his tank responds.

Cool. My concoction is super simple, I think it is similar to Allan's V1 and I get a great feeding response.
I have 100-gallon total water volume.

Fill up a red solo cup with TANK water.

Mix in:
1/2 tsp ZeoZym
4-drops ZeoBak
1-tsp Benepets

Let it sit for 7-8 hours, stir it every so often if I remember to and then dump it all in at the same time.

 

[Kasrift]

I have no idea what conoction you all talking about. I just mix phyto, acropower, benefreef, and oyster feast and feed.

I’m almost the same, except I do Aquavitro Fuel instead of acropower. I’m also only sometimes using Oyster Feast. If I use it, I get an insane feeding response from the acros, I just don’t buy it all the time.

 

[ryshark]

I'm hitting it hard. I make a budget bottle with bacter7, af np pro, roids, fuel, and calcium carbonate. 100-150ml/day (1 or 2 feedings). 125g + 20 gal frag tank.

Then I alternate, a separate batch with biodigest bacteria, instead of bacter7, because of cost.

Both seem to benefit the tank. Not dialed in yet but nutes are still fairly low (.03po4/5ppm no3)

Does Alan use calcium carbonate in the concoction? I don't add that, I do however, dose KZ coral snow weekly, but I mix it with my KZ Coral System 3 (aminos)

 

[ryshark]

I’m almost the same, except I do Aquavitro Fuel instead of acropower. I’m also only sometimes using Oyster Feast. If I use it, I get an insane feeding response from the acros, I just don’t buy it all the time.

The "concoction" is more about feeding bacteria.

 

[ReeferZ1227]

I’m almost the same, except I do Aquavitro Fuel instead of acropower. I’m also only sometimes using Oyster Feast. If I use it, I get an insane feeding response from the acros, I just don’t buy it all the time.

Another fuel user. Love that product. I stopped dosing aminos when the tank crashed. Haven't resumed. I use 4 capfuls in my concotion though. I sanitize my mixing container, microwave RODI, then add salt, mix, then all the fixing, use a heating pad, and I also Aerate for 14-18hrs to increase bacteria density.

 

[ReeferZ1227]

Does Alan use calcium carbonate in the concoction? I don't add that, I do however, dose KZ coral snow weekly, but I mix it with my KZ Coral System 3 (aminos)

When I was reading through the thread it seemed to be standard, I think a flocculant is called out in the recipe IIRC. About 5g to 500mL

 

[Thuan]

Another fuel user. Love that product. I stopped dosing aminos when the tank crashed. Haven't resumed. I use 4 capfuls in my concotion though. I sanitize my mixing container, microwave RODI, then add salt, mix, then all the fixing, use a heating pad, and I also Aerate for 14-18hrs to increase bacteria density.

acropower vs Aquavitro fuel. I used fuel before, but don't know which have better result

 

[ryshark]

When I was reading through the thread it seemed to be standard, I think a flocculant is called out in the recipe IIRC. About 5g to 500mL

I don't think so. But I could be wrong

 

[robanister]

If you don't hear from me it's due to my box being delivered on Friday and my wife has actually killed me. There used to be more choice in shipping. With working extra shifts this week makes it tough to do it quietly and quickly.