What does any reefer do when things are going fairly well and there's no need to make a change? Try something new, of course! After getting some local ringing-endorsements, I decided to give AcroPower a go.
The recommended dosage is 5mL per 25 gallons per week, which equates to about 25mL/week for me. It says you can added it all at once or break up the dosage. I started manually dosing 5mL/day four days go and I'm not going to go over 25mL/week until I get a better feel for how the corals react.
I'm not going to claim that I've noticed any changes yet because I did a 25g water change yesterday and changed out the carbon/gfo.
The only variable that's going to be slightly thrown off is that I only filled the GFO reactor up with half of my normal amount (0.5c vs. 1c). The reason I did that is just to see if I can get by using less GFO and because my clam hasn't been fully expanding.
I have plenty of "before" pictures that I should be able to use as a reference so we'll see how this little experiment goes. If I notice the results others are claiming, it's very likely that I'll swap out the Magnesium for the AcroPower in the doser. I haven't "dosed" Mg for several months now. Just monitoring it and it's staying in line with regular water changes (plus, if you've read a long and recall, I had to raise the Mg to battle bryopsis and it takes a long time for it to naturally come down).
Here are a few other pictures that were recently taken:
Settling in and still a real eye catcher
Reef Raft Red Barron by
..:.. EZ ..:.., on Flickr
A new addition:
Cherry Corals Iron Man Acans by
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Vivid Pink ******* by
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Did think these were going to make it, but after several iodine dips they seem to have recovered
Utter Chaos by
..:.. EZ ..:.., on Flickr
Looking forward to watching this one mature
Potential... by
..:.. EZ ..:.., on Flickr
Reef Raft Sunset Rhodactus by
..:.. EZ ..:.., on Flickr
This one has done pretty well since moving it under the halides (keeping it pretty well shaded though)
Froot Loop Chalice by
..:.. EZ ..:.., on Flickr
Great personality on this guy, looking forward to watching him fatten up and color up!
Burning Embers Blenny by
..:.. EZ ..:.., on Flickr
