Gig 'em @ NDstructible Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 So I accidentally dosed a whole bottle of AcroPower last night. I hadn't been dosing in a while and I thought I would start dosing again to see if there was indeed a noticeable effect. I went to purge the lines and next thing I know it's morning and I realized I forgot to turn off the dosing pump! I thought for sure it would be a disaster, but everything looks fine today. The only thing I can notice is that PO4 dropped by half and my Alk decreased slightly. Everything else seems to be stable. Just thought that I would share my experience, some people seem to believe dosing too much amino acids can be detrimental, but here's a good example of over doing it! [emoji12] Just an anecdotal example of course. Any minute now my corals will burst out of the glass and blind me with their fluorescence 🤣 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolt Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Watch out Gig'em -- you might have triggered a slow invasion of dinos or cyano from the upside down! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bpb Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I discovered the same thing when I accidentally dumped 3/4 a bottle of Zeovit coral vitalizer and nothing happened good or bad. I begin wondering if this stuff really does anything Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gig 'em @ NDstructible Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 I discovered the same thing when I accidentally dumped 3/4 a bottle of Zeovit coral vitalizer and nothing happened good or bad. I begin wondering if this stuff really does anything Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ProRight?! Is this all snake oil??? I would love to do a controlled study and determine if we're being ripped off by these expensive additives... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdavis735 Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I feel like anytime I dose acro power or whatever seachem’s aminos are called I get a bad Dino outbreak. Haven’t tried since I started running the uv sterilizer. I’m scared to as my tank is cleaner than I’ve ever seen it. I still feel like the Dino situation and it getting worse when dosing pretty much anything could be caused my starting with completely dry, dead rock. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gig 'em @ NDstructible Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 I haven't seen that yet, although I was already seeing some cyano on the dead spots of my sand bed weeks ago before I tried to dose AcroPower, so if it gets any worse then that may be a good explanation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gig 'em @ NDstructible Posted January 18, 2018 Author Share Posted January 18, 2018 Couple of corals looked very nice tonight, so I thought I would share 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishShrink Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 1 hour ago, Gig 'em @ NDstructible said: Couple of corals looked very nice tonight, so I thought I would share Beautiful blue in the first picture. What is that one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gig 'em @ NDstructible Posted January 18, 2018 Author Share Posted January 18, 2018 Beautiful blue in the first picture. What is that one? That is the Oregon Tort. The greatest classic acro IMHO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoneroller Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 Yep, very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gig 'em @ NDstructible Posted January 19, 2018 Author Share Posted January 19, 2018 Grabbed a couple more photos tonight while I was cutting frags. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timfish Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 On 1/15/2018 at 6:41 PM, Gig 'em @ NDstructible said: So I accidentally dosed a whole bottle of AcroPower last night. I hadn't been dosing in a while and I thought I would start dosing again to see if there was indeed a noticeable effect. I went to purge the lines and next thing I know it's morning and I realized I forgot to turn off the dosing pump! I thought for sure it would be a disaster, but everything looks fine today. The only thing I can notice is that PO4 dropped by half and my Alk decreased slightly. Everything else seems to be stable. Just thought that I would share my experience, some people seem to believe dosing too much amino acids can be detrimental, but here's a good example of over doing it! Just an anecdotal example of course. Any minute now my corals will burst out of the glass and blind me with their fluorescence 🤣 Amino acids are organic nitrogen which corals will consume along with or instead of inorganic forms. What you don't know is what the daily production and consumption of organic and inorganic nitrogen is in your system. That you saw a drop in PO4 suggests the acropower was probably a noticable increase in the the overall total of available nitrogen. The risk is creating or exacerbating a phosphate deficiency. This paper and this paper done on corals maintained in a ULN system found the coral/zooxanthellae simbiosis is really screwed up when the nitrogen/phosphate ratio gets out of whack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gig 'em @ NDstructible Posted January 21, 2018 Author Share Posted January 21, 2018 If AcroPower truly has nothing but organic nitrogen, I would think dumping an entire bottle would result in a spike in nutrients. In reality, I saw a sharp dip in both nitrate and phosphate. The deluge of amino acids was on the 15th and nutrients hit their lowest levels the following day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+olaggie01 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 So I accidentally dosed a whole bottle of AcroPower last night. I hadn't been dosing in a while and I thought I would start dosing again to see if there was indeed a noticeable effect. I went to purge the lines and next thing I know it's morning and I realized I forgot to turn off the dosing pump! I thought for sure it would be a disaster, but everything looks fine today. The only thing I can notice is that PO4 dropped by half and my Alk decreased slightly. Everything else seems to be stable. Just thought that I would share my experience, some people seem to believe dosing too much amino acids can be detrimental, but here's a good example of over doing it! [emoji12] Just an anecdotal example of course. Any minute now my corals will burst out of the glass and blind me with their fluorescence 🤣And you want to be my latex salesman. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bpb Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 And you want to be my latex salesman. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk That’s gold, Jerry! GOLD!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timfish Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 It would be nice to know the nitrogen and phosphate content of Acropower. The problem some people have with overdosing amino acids may not be the amino acids per se but they've created a nitrogen/phosphate imbalance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gig 'em @ NDstructible Posted January 21, 2018 Author Share Posted January 21, 2018 It would be nice to know the nitrogen and phosphate content of Acropower. The problem some people have with overdosing amino acids may not be the amino acids per se but they've created a nitrogen/phosphate imbalance.That would be nice to know. I'm wondering if it has any real impact at all considering my anecdotal experience. Colors seem to be the same, growth is tough to gauge with acroporas in a week, the only quantifiable change was a dip in Alk, NO3, and PO4. [emoji848] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gig 'em @ NDstructible Posted January 25, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 25, 2018 Thought I would share some side photos of the tank. As usual, sorry for the less than superb iPhone photo quality...This pink hyacinthus (the GE PCP [emoji16]) is getting insanely big. I feel like it's going to burst through my tank walls by the end of the year! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gig 'em @ NDstructible Posted January 26, 2018 Author Share Posted January 26, 2018 FarmerTy was nice enough to come over and film a video of my tank. Enjoy! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ACampbell Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Im gushing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 John, what kind of par are you seeing near the top and at your sand bed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gig 'em @ NDstructible Posted January 28, 2018 Author Share Posted January 28, 2018 John, what kind of par are you seeing near the top and at your sand bed?Around 600 up top and a little below 200 at the bottom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicordeaFreak Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 On 1/25/2018 at 9:28 PM, Gig 'em @ NDstructible said: FarmerTy was nice enough to come over and film a video of my tank. Enjoy! Tank is looking spectacular! So many nice corals in there. I’m impressed with how densely packed it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paula Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 FarmerTy was nice enough to come over and film a video of my tank. Enjoy!That's looking really good John!Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 1 hour ago, Gig 'em @ NDstructible said: Around 600 up top and a little below 200 at the bottom WOW...and what kind of lights are you running? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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