what is everyones opinion on zcro power? before and after coral pics please

[Ryan2002]

exattly what the title says

[jestep]

Assuming you're referring to acro power?

 

Haven't been impressed. Used the korallen zucht amino concentrate and absolutely noticed a difference but that stuff is expensive. I know there's a lot of people using acro power though. Would really like to see some objective side by side examples because I haven't noticed any difference with it.

[GHill762]

I use it off and on.. I'm on my second bottle, the first bottle gave me quicker growth (or maybe a placebo effect), second bottle just gives me nasty film algae outbreaks.. imo, just feed your fish and don't waste your money on acro power.. I also tried the brightwell stuff, that stuff actually smelled like fat or something, but didn't notice any difference with that either really..

[farkwar]

I use it sparingly.

 

Rocket fuel.

 

Im playing along

 

2 pics today. 5ml Acro Power with 5ml Marine Snow (these seem synergistic)]

 

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Ill post pics tomorrow and Thursday

[jservedio]

If you don't have a lot of fish, have low nutrients, and barely feed your tank, it'll be drastic when you add it. If you have a mature tank and feed a lot of food, you already have lots of vitamins, amino acids, HUFAs, carbohydrates, etc, etc, etc in the water and it won't make much of a difference (or any at all).

 

It isn't some magic product. I use it occasionally when I slack on feeding or run GFO, but I much prefer just feeding my acros. Yes, amino acids will elicit PE from acros, but you know what gets a much, much better feeding response than that? Appropriately sized foods like oyster eggs, rotifers, and baby brine and time. Feeding acros is a huge pain since they take a long time to respond (unlike LPS which have feeders out the second food hits the water) and you might have to wait a half hour, but feeding is way better.

[farkwar]

Not magic.

 

Amino acids.

 

Large enough to build proteins quickly.

 

Small enough for absorption across sessile animal cell membranes quickly.

 

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Compare area to above photo

 

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This is day 3.

Dosed 5ml on day 1

Dosed 5ml on day 2

40G Breeder with sump.

[Sk8n Reefer]

I've been using 3ml a week on my Nuvo 16- I felt that the coral responded well and appeared to be open more- not a huge difference - pure anecdotal- nothing scientific about my observations. I didn't see anything noticeably wrong so I will continue. My SPS are happy = I am happy

[diablomaster9045]

IMO its awesome! I get better results from it than I do from Seachem Fuel.

[opaquelace]

I use it and like it. I was recommended FlatWorm Stop (a zeovit product) for coral health across the board. I'll be testing out the two products to see which one I prefer. I notice a better feeding response from my corals when I use AcroPower an hour before feeding. More food equals healthy corals.