Nordy
Active Member
Started my reef tank cycling in early July. Used dry rock and normal bagged substrate and did Red Sea Reef mature program to get things going. Had a vision of what I wanted to see and impetuously added an expensive Acro 6 weeks in. I did reefing 5 years prior and did moderately well with some acros. I definitely thought this Acro would be a slam dunk with my care and monitoring. The tank I have now is about 160 gallons water volume with sump and Dt. I do my best to keep parameters near NSW. Of course this Acro turned white with little polyp extension. 4 and a half months later, I bought some AF Life Source, and began using it every other week or so. What happened in a very short time has been cool to observe. Polyps came back out first. Then the color began to change very gradually. After using 3 times, some brighter colors are showing around the polyps upon close viewing. Today it is still an off color but I’m seeing it gradually turn more turquoise. Definitely never wrote this coral off, but it was a white stick with no polyps for some time. I really think the AF Life Source turned this around. Not out of the woods yet, but I chose to post this after seeing an improvement. Maybe it would have been better to cycle longer and achieve greater stability before taking on my first Acro, but I thought this was pretty cool to see some turning points I attribute to using the mud. I’m an intermediate at best in this hobby, but wanted to share what I observed. Things are progressing smoothly in my reef tank. Coralline has been getting more prominent, rather quickly. Hope I don’t seem like some promoter to AF. Just wanted to share that this product was beneficial in my reefing.
