Red Sea AB+ Color

[Townsaquaria]

Could it be phytoplankton?

 

[FishyFishFish]

Here is the sheet that I found. I didn’t think to search the internet for it!!

Interestingly, it appears to be mostly distilled water.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I have just read another post that lists some of the ingredients and it includes Acriflavine. Could this be the color?

I told you B2 was that color,. Why look for other possibiilities?

Acriflavine is reddish brown in powder and concentrated solution.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Here is the sheet that I found. I didn’t think to search the internet for it!!

Interestingly, it appears to be mostly distilled water.

Of course it is. Every liquid product is nearly all water unless it is an organic solvent..

 

[FishyFishFish]

I do not know what it is, but riboflavin (Vitamin B2) is a fluorescent green.

I told you B2 was that color,. Why look for other posbiilities?

You told me you didn't know what it was?

 

[FishyFishFish]

Here is a picture from R2R of a tank being treated with Acriflavine. The poster stated that, in person, it looks more of a neon green under the lights. It looks pretty close to the color I see in AB+ so I was just curious.

I'm not saying it isn't vitamin B2 either; I have no idea and the ingredients just say vitamins complex. I had also moved on from this thread but just happened to see another thread with the ingredients list I posted above and I thought it was a bit of a coincidence.

 

[Treefer32]

I believe AB+ is supposed to be vitamin / amino acid complex. I've used it in the past, but moved to red Sea A, B, C, D trace elements and dosing Red Sea Amino Acids. The amino acids have almost identical color to what everyone has mentioned. It would make sense to reuse formulas for other product lines and add additional ingredients as necessary. Do they help? I know the trace elements do for sure. I've never seen growth of my acros as much as I have with dosing trace elements.

That said, I don't do water changes, so it's the only source of trace elements. The trace elements, do not have this color in them. The amino acids do though.