diy amino acid

Randy Holmes-Farley · Sep 21, 2016

Russ265 said:
not every aquarist has access to their AA concentration/specification count.
in other words. its meaningless.

if you chuck x ounces of AA in your glass cauldron, how much percentage did you increase it by?

dirty tanks. maybe 5%. clean tanks by 100%?

not scientific at all.

Why do you think that knowledge that corals can take up free amino acids is meaningless?

If it wasn't known, or was known to be untrue, you'd surely be stating that as an objection.

Do you have to know the iron concentration before dosing to know that dosing it is useful for some organisms? I'm sure I don't. It is known to be taken up and the effects are readily observed in some cases.

bif24701 · Sep 21, 2016

Or dose he measure the current level of food in his system before feeding?

Sean Donohue · Dec 30, 2018

So I'm trying amino acids. It's funny how so many threads just turn into two sets of opposite information. It's like trying to ask multiple nutrition experts if eggs are good for you or not... (they are). So I'm going to give aminos a try. I purchased Brightwell Aquatics 1 fl. oz. Coral Amino Free Form Amino Acid Supplement for Corals for 15 bucks on amazon. It sounds like they either stimulate a feeding response or they actually are consumed by the corals in a positive way or both. I'm going to try adding amino acids before a feeding so that they are all in a receptive mood when I give them my food mix of chopped squid, shrimp, and cod (and some reef-roid sprinkles). Up to this point, most of the corals need a bit of waking-up when I add the food and sometimes I have to keep my invertebrates from getting to it first.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Dec 30, 2018

Sounds like a fine plan. [emoji3]

Sean Donohue · Jan 20, 2019

So a couple weeks into dosing, I can't say I have observed any noticable changes in behavior, color, or PE. After this bottle is gone I'm just going to go back to having a variety of protein in my food mix.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Jan 20, 2019

Thanks for the update.

FunkEngine · Feb 11, 2019

So was there any consensus of what to actually put in a DIY supplement? Aspartic acid was mentioned, and is readily available.

Atif · Mar 8, 2019

Beneficial info .....

wattson · Mar 9, 2019

vitamin C /Aspartic acid,,dont waste your time with it..

pigmo · Dec 13, 2019

diesel3443 said:
Right now I am playing around with dosing glutamic and aspartic, dosed daily, and equates to roughly 500mg of each per week. Too early to tell anything...good or bad..

hi @diesel3443

after a few years, are you still dosing your diy aa's? what happened?

;Cat

pigmo · Dec 13, 2019

Kungpaoshizi said:
I use reef energy every hour with a Drew's doser. It's just the suggested dosage divided by 24. The reason for this vs others is the AA's plus a little bit extra food. I noticed when walking the fine line taking inorganics next to zero via Nopox/biopellets, it was a lot easier to avoid necrosis events and helping avoid pale colors. (I hate the pale colors)

The RE every hour allows a baseline to gauge from. I do feed other stuff as well, but that's a different subject and doesn't include AA's.

kp, what was your fridge contraption?

;Cat