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With the mention of possibly a hint of eucalyptus oil I now have this running for the next hour. It has a hint of vibration but not bad. I put in .5oz into two tubes.
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The vials it came with are not capped. The vials I'm getting are. I didn't get temp readings but the outside seemed hotter then the inside. But I could still hold my hands to it so I would not say excessive.Are the vials capped? Also do you think the heat is excessive? Thanks Jason you mad scientist!
And I'm looking at getting these nextI am starting to think more about this.
Using a centrifuge would greatly reduce my time hunting a slide for bacteria as I could concentrate the bacteria for the dropper.
It is 1% aspartic acid by weight. How much added organic matter do you think is needed to spur cyano?
I think this is to me?
I do not know. I would assume more then 1% of 20ml to make a big impact. But possible as I've never dosed aminos of any type before. I'm still dosing around 100ml per day of acetic acid.
In my case cyano was cut back quickly but then slowly crept back but has not reached to starting point yet.
Algae itself hasn't seemed to be impacted at all and in fact has increased in terms of film algae on my glass.
I'm still dosing 2x per week 20ml of vibrant and interesting to see my tank reacting. Most recently my rocks look "cleaner." That's hard to quantify or describe but to me its a very different look then I've seen and I don't blow them off or have touched anything in my display besides cleaning off the grills of my pumps.
I haven't changed anything in my maintenance. I have increased feedings leading up to this and continue to do so.
I do have some zoa or palythoas but they came in under my yellow Fiji leather as hitchhickers. They don't do well anyway due to the leather. But vibrant hasn't made them look any worse.@jason2459, have you noticed any changes at all in your Zoa's since dosing Vibrant?
Bacteria will consume it. I'll have to look for that thread. Sounds familiar. There is a good thread linked to from Randy and Cliff's vinegar dosing article.I remember reading a thread long ago iirc 2006 or so when rhf and others were talking about aspartic acid dosing for corals.
What i found interesting was not the coral growth but one post talking about reduced algae growth.
Perhaps aspartic acid is a key to this type of bacteria.
Around 1% daily water changes which I was doing before as well. I think somewhere in the first few posts details my regular maintenance which I did and have not altered.jason2459, what water changing regimen are you doing while performing your experiment?