I wanna start this by saying I am not a big chemical guy at all, I don't believe in adding stuff to the tank besides iodine (i have gorgonians) and my normal CA,ALK,MG dosing stuff.
So I started dosing acropower to my DT earlier this year for the first time I think around January/February to try it out. I dosed for a a few months (2 bottles worth) and noticed I was getting better PE on my sps but didn't really notice enhanced color or better growth so I decided to finish the bottle that I had off and not use it again. So I would say about 3 months I didn't run acropower in my system (enough time to IMO run fully out of the system). In that time my sps seemed to stay the same maybe a little less PE but I would say about the same as far as color and growth. By same I mean healthy and colorful. So I wanted to run a little bit of an experiment and try it out again and see if I would notice any difference so I purchased a bottle last Thursday or Friday and started dosing.
I began dosing about a half capful every day starting either Thursday or Friday. Since then my PE has increased a great deal in all of my sps frags/mini colonies. I have had a smaller frag of Tanzanite Terror sps for about a month and a half now and it was growing and starting to encrust the whole disk but the color really wasn't there. Since the acropower addition less then a week ago I have noticed more encrusting and it is starting to color up pretty nice finally! I got a mini colony of pearl berry the same day that had not really shown any PE since the day I got it and now its opening up more and more each day. Overall all my sps have looked better since the addition. I will say though, much like the last time I was dosing, I have noticed much more algae growth just on the glass. I use to have to use my magnet to clean the glass every 3-4 days from normal algae but now its every other day I am cleaning the glass. I carbon dose (vodka) so I am wondering if the vodka is stripping the water of a lot of nutrients and the acropower is replenishing those nutrients and thats why I am noticing what I am noticing.
I am intrigued so far so I will def be using the rest of the bottle to see if I am still getting positive results. Ill keep everyone updated. Anyone else having similar experiences?
So I started dosing acropower to my DT earlier this year for the first time I think around January/February to try it out. I dosed for a a few months (2 bottles worth) and noticed I was getting better PE on my sps but didn't really notice enhanced color or better growth so I decided to finish the bottle that I had off and not use it again. So I would say about 3 months I didn't run acropower in my system (enough time to IMO run fully out of the system). In that time my sps seemed to stay the same maybe a little less PE but I would say about the same as far as color and growth. By same I mean healthy and colorful. So I wanted to run a little bit of an experiment and try it out again and see if I would notice any difference so I purchased a bottle last Thursday or Friday and started dosing.
I began dosing about a half capful every day starting either Thursday or Friday. Since then my PE has increased a great deal in all of my sps frags/mini colonies. I have had a smaller frag of Tanzanite Terror sps for about a month and a half now and it was growing and starting to encrust the whole disk but the color really wasn't there. Since the acropower addition less then a week ago I have noticed more encrusting and it is starting to color up pretty nice finally! I got a mini colony of pearl berry the same day that had not really shown any PE since the day I got it and now its opening up more and more each day. Overall all my sps have looked better since the addition. I will say though, much like the last time I was dosing, I have noticed much more algae growth just on the glass. I use to have to use my magnet to clean the glass every 3-4 days from normal algae but now its every other day I am cleaning the glass. I carbon dose (vodka) so I am wondering if the vodka is stripping the water of a lot of nutrients and the acropower is replenishing those nutrients and thats why I am noticing what I am noticing.
I am intrigued so far so I will def be using the rest of the bottle to see if I am still getting positive results. Ill keep everyone updated. Anyone else having similar experiences?
