Dosing aminos

[Chrisshoup420]

I was thinking about start dosing aminos any advice what’s brands and methods would be appreciated.

 

[drexel]

What are your goals? Is there something you're trying to correct? In a healthy system, corals will produce their own, but if you're going to try AA, then I would start with acro power.

 

[joseserrano]

Acro power and Red Sea have been good for me

 

[Chrisshoup420]

I’ve noticed my gonis are not open at much as before not much has chance in my system I only dose Alk, cal, mag. Someone told me to spot feed them amino and reef roids.

 

[Discotu]

I used to sporadically dose RS reef energy and did not notice any significant difference. In fact it might have been a detriment because of added nutrients. If you do decide to dose AA definitely target feed the goni so as to minimize waste. FWIW I also dose 2 part + mag and have a healthy goni without dosing anything else. What are your water params? How much light and flow are they getting?

 

[pledosophy]

If you want to automate it, you can find shelf stable amino's that can last for 6 months out of the fridge.

I have had best luck with Brightwell Amino's, but they have to be dosed by hand daily and do best when mixed with foods.

It will take a few weeks to see a difference IME

 

[Jimbo327]

I dose AB+ and it fueled an cyano outbreak. So whatever you do, don't overdose it.

 

[bustayanky]

I used Brightwell Aminos and started to see all my corals react really well to it at 1/2 the recommended dosage. So I thought to myself, if it was doing well at 1/2 dosage. How would it be at max dosage??! Long story short, I overdid it and had a tank crash. So take it slow and less is best.

Currently, I don’t dose any aminos anymore.

 

[DanK.Reefer]

I have been dosing Brightwells Coralaminos lately. It took about 2 weeks to see a difference but, my corals have seemed to color up a bit. I also notice my LPS corals deflate and "poop" more regularly now that I am feeding the aminos. I run a low nutrient tank and carbon dose to keep it that way. Since I am on top of my nutrients to keep them low I am able to keep on top of weather or not to increase or decrease the aminos or carbon dosing. I brodcast dose the aminos by hand when I feed my fish. I have considered autodosing the aminos but would switch to Acropower if I did start auto dosing.

A few issues when auto dosing amino products is that they can spoil because they are protien based and they can fall out of suspension if not shaken/mixed regularly. This can cause issues when hooked to a doser long term. Aside from keeping the solution in the dosing bottle fresh and well mixed you also have to flush the dosing lines regularly to keep from growing bacteria in the lines. This seemed like to much a PITA and took the convenience out of auto dosing for me. So for this resaon I just dose it by hand. It is not that hard takes less than 30 seconds and if you miss a dose or 2 here or there it really dosen't matter. The corals don't need to eat every single day since they derive most of their nutrition from photosynthesis.

There are also some pretty good frozen food blends available that have plenty of aminos present in them like LRS Reef Frenzy, RodsFood complete reef, and Hikari Marine Cusine. FWIW I get a feeding response from all of my corals almost immediately when I put Rod'sFood in the water.

Probably more info than you needed but, in a nutshell this has been my experience with dosing aminos.

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[Chrisshoup420]

Thank you so much guys!

 

[drexel]

I’ve noticed my gonis are not open at much as before not much has chance in my system I only dose Alk, cal, mag. Someone told me to spot feed them amino and reef roids.

Do dose iron and manganese? These traces are almost always depleted, so dosing daily may be what's missing? Any ICP results or tested recently?

 

[Discotu]

Do dose iron and manganese? These traces are almost always depleted, so dosing daily may be what's missing? Any ICP results or tested recently?

Oh right duh, forgot..I do add the TM trace elements K and A to my 2part as part of my routine.