SPS Keepers, Anyone dosing Salifert Amino Acids?

[GaryP]

OK, so I am wrong. My apologies. I must have thinking of something else. That's going to make me have to go look at my "supplement shelf." I could see how something like that would work for softies, just not SPS. Softies will absorb stuff out of the water since many don't really have a mouth to speak of.

[Ed]

Gary,

Looks to me like the Kent Coral Vite has a little bit of everything in it.:roll

Not sure what all of it is or how much value it has. I just had a bottle on the shelf and thought you might be interested in the ingredients. Wonder why GARF thinks it is special?

[thedude]

Yeah, I just find it odd that all of the last several stunning reefcentral TOTM's have used Salifert amino acids. Makes me feel like I'm missing out on something.

[JimD]

Gary, you might be thinking of a Mark Weiss product called 'coral vital' which has been said to be nothing more than plain old apple juice. Personaly, Im not sold on any of these types of additives, just because RC totm's use them means nothing to me. Theres been plenty of tanks highlighted that dont use anyhing but the basics that look as good or better.

[Ed]

Gary,

Both Kent Coral Accel and Kent Micro Vert contain the mystical "hydrolyzed marine protein." You might be thinking of one of these?

[GaryP]

Yeppers, Coral Accel is what I was thinking of. Wrong Kent product. Thanks.

[Richard]

Yeppers, Coral Accel is what I was thinking of. Wrong Kent product. Thanks.

How is it possible to get the products mixed up when they have so few additives to use LOL.

[GaryP]

I guess they ran out of new species of snakes to make oil out of.

[schprock]

They are some peer reviewed paper out there that strongly suggest that amino acid is incorporated from the water column.

Paste from discussion section:
Aspartic acid, for example, is one of the major and most abundant amino acids in the coral matrix (Young, 1971; Cuif and Gautret, 1995; Dauphin and Cuif, 1997). Allemand et al. (1998) also showed that no aspartic acid pool was present inside the coral tissue, suggesting the need for a constant supply from an exogenous source.

Here is the paper for those of you who are interested:
http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/207/9/1461