Aquavitro Fuel
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Daniel@R2R
Living the Reef Life
I've heard good things, but I have no experience.
Bump for people who have used this product!
Bump for people who have used this product!
Rob Top1
Well-Known Member
Love it.
Couple things though. I hate dosing something twice a week. Daily dosing keeps the levels consistant a much better way to go IMO do the math and get a daily dose. Most dosing is based off moderate bio loads...what ever that means. I would do the math for a 50% suggested dose and do that daily for a couple weeks and then increase to 75%, 100%, 125%...continue these increases weekly until you get a diatom spike. At that point do a water change and back it down one notch on the dose amount. Personally my system is at 125% recommended doseing. I jumped on the Aquavitro band wagon as soon as it was released. Jim from Sea Chem was very excited about it and got me pumped. I have used the whole line and find it top shelf. Even though I am quite pleased I always wonder if there is better was consideti g moving to the Red Sea system. Prior to ordering the coral color products I decided to test the potassium iodine and iron in my water. Using Fuel had me where RS suggested and with only one bottle not 3. As for the other Aquavitro items. Love those too
Couple things though. I hate dosing something twice a week. Daily dosing keeps the levels consistant a much better way to go IMO do the math and get a daily dose. Most dosing is based off moderate bio loads...what ever that means. I would do the math for a 50% suggested dose and do that daily for a couple weeks and then increase to 75%, 100%, 125%...continue these increases weekly until you get a diatom spike. At that point do a water change and back it down one notch on the dose amount. Personally my system is at 125% recommended doseing. I jumped on the Aquavitro band wagon as soon as it was released. Jim from Sea Chem was very excited about it and got me pumped. I have used the whole line and find it top shelf. Even though I am quite pleased I always wonder if there is better was consideti g moving to the Red Sea system. Prior to ordering the coral color products I decided to test the potassium iodine and iron in my water. Using Fuel had me where RS suggested and with only one bottle not 3. As for the other Aquavitro items. Love those too
Snitch
Active Member
I compared the ingredients of Fuel and Seachem's Reef Plus. It's basically the exact same thing, but Fuel has very slightly elevated levels of 1 or 2 ingredients. Other than that, it's the same thing in a different bottle. I used to use Reef Plus way back in the day and I loved it then as well. Here are 2 pics of the same spot I took that are almost 2 months apart.
Before:
Almost 2 months later:
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Snitch
Active Member
I'm going to be fragging a bunch of things in the next couple of weeks. That piece being one of them. There's a few other pieces right around it and a small green BTA behind it that the birdsnest is encroaching on.
Blaghna
New Member
I started this maybe 3 months ago in my 9 gal display at work. Got crazy growth out of my zoas and blue octocoral. Wish I could have cool LPS and SPS like you mainland guys have... And no joke, it does fly off the shelves. Probably sell 20 bottles a week if I could keep it in stock.
dub3
Community Member
I bought it when I first started the hobby, didn't read very well and missed the 'refrigerate after opening' part. So I repurchased a month ago and am loving it. I dose half the recommended dosage though. Water quality in my tank changed very quickly with the full dose.
spspirate
Tidepool Explorer
I use to use it and it worked great! I used Reef Plus before the Aquavitro line came out. Both are pretty much the same thing but I think that one has chlorella (single celled algae) in it. Chlorella is supposed to be packed full of goodies for the corals to utilize.
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