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Acropower

@marko@

@marko@

ive been dosing 3mL daily - no change in the corals (yet); but my phosphates did go from 0ppm to 0.4ppm (but i also started dosing 1mL phytoplankton daily as well - so i dont know what caused the phosphates).
in theory, i dont see why there would be any phosphorus in acropower - its an amino acid suppliment; and the standard protein-building amino acids do not have phosphorus.
 
Classklown90

Classklown90

Maybe phosphorylation? So the phosphates are attaching to the amino acids rather than binding with gfo and/or being used by algae. I'm sure Paul will chime in

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@marko@

@marko@

i guess its possible - but i know at least at intracellular conditions, the addition of inorganic phosphate onto an organic molecule has a highly unfavorable free energy.
also i would be surprised if my algae and bacteria were incapable of utilizing phosphorylated amino acids.
like i said, i suspect that the phosphorus is coming mostly if no entirely from the phytoplankton i also started adding. since that lists several organisms as the ingredients - and all cells are bound to have phosphorus.
i will continue to monitor and see whats up.
 
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@marko@ said:
but i know at least at intracellular conditions, the addition of inorganic phosphate onto an organic molecule has a highly unfavorable free energy.
utilizing phosphorylated amino acids.
like i said, i suspect that the phosphorus is coming mostly if no entirely from the phytoplankton i also started adding. since that lists several organisms as the ingredients - and all cells are bound to have phosphorus.
i will continue to monitor and see whats up.
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What the heck is this!!!! English people.... my head hurt reading that LOL
 
dirtycontour

dirtycontour

I'm on board

Dosed my first dose last night. I only dosed a bit less than half of the recommended of each product. I plan to slowly ramp up each week.
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@marko@

@marko@

so my nitrates stayed very low, and so i increased my acropower dosing to get more N in the tank. with phytoplankton cut, and acropower increased, by phosphates went down, and nitrates twitched up (barely changed). so i dont think acropower is responsible for my minor spike in phosphates.
but none of this was a control study so it proves nothing - no statistical significance with case study of 1 subject and all that.

also, im seeing better coloration, and possibly better PE in a few corals as opposed to a few weeks ago. ill try to get new pics to post along with the old i have saved.
 
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Arce

Started using it, probably my fault, but I'm attributing my phosphate spike to this, most sps are bleaching. I was dosing 5ml which it says should be for 25 gals once a week. My systems around 35 gals after displacement. Could be something else, but since i dosed the acropower no other params have changed so I'm pretty sure its what did my sps in.
 
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Arce

Rwc said:
Ouch that sucks
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Yep it does, my slimer and a few others browned out a bit, my monti is bleaching. The slimer i think is a goner but most look like they should hopefully recover, but if i ever dose again im literally going to cut it in half if not more.
 
Ryeguyy84

Ryeguyy84

Thought I'd add, I'm not even sure what this coral is but I started dosing at 50% on Sunday and here is what it looked like:


It's now Thursday and there are now there are some tentacles out most of the day:


Oh and this is new:
 
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