Brightwell Aquatics AA?

[bigblack]

stuff is weak, better off going with zeovit aas much better deal for the amount you have to pay vs dose as i went thru a bottle in two months with no excess signs of algae whereas with the zeovit aa's now i think it will last me more then a year and they work better too, i too found reefbiofuel to be super weak, i've worked my way up to 6ml a day dosing on my 100gal w/o any blooms our side effect, whereas with vodka i'm dosing 0.6mls which is my maintenance dose, huge difference if you ask me. MB7 i'm still using, dosing about 1 ml every 3 days.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by bigblack

stuff is weak, better off going with zeovit aas much better deal for the amount you have to pay vs dose as i went thru a bottle in two months with no excess signs of algae whereas with the zeovit aa's now i think it will last me more then a year and they work better too, i too found reefbiofuel to be super weak, i've worked my way up to 6ml a day dosing on my 100gal w/o any blooms our side effect, whereas with vodka i'm dosing 0.6mls which is my maintenance dose, huge difference if you ask me. MB7 i'm still using, dosing about 1 ml every 3 days.

Great, thanks! I will see how it goes.

[mitchelljared]

I just switched to using the Brightwell Aquatics Reef Code A and B for my calcium and alk supplements about 4 days ago, before using Kent products. I also started using Restor (which has aminos, omegas, etc). I know it's way too early to see a change yet...everything looks good thus far. I'll keep you posted in a few weeks if anyone's interested if there is a difference.
Looking at the website and the rack in the LFS, I can see a few other products of Brightwell's I'd like to try.
Just curious too, I read that you're not supposed to use Microbacter7 as a stable way to reduce nutrients longterm? Think that's on the Brightwell website.

[untamed]

I also haven't posted much on my results with carbon (VSV) dosing....mostly because I haven't really seen anything significant to report on.

I dose 6ml per day of VSV mix (Vodka, Sugar, Vinegar). My nitrates were always near zero and continue to be so. The VSV has not made any measurable impact on phosphate, which is also usually very low (.05 - .1ppm).

I was hoping it would reduce the problems I have with cyano, but that hasn't really changed at all. A day of darkness every month or so is the only way I can keep cyano in check.

I also add MB7...but only 1x per week. I don't think I'll continue this much longer. I've also been daily dosing Brightwell's Coralcolour, which I will also stop doing when the bottle runs out.

To your original question though... I'm dosing zeo/Pohls AA and haven't tried the Brightwell AA at this time.

Anyway...the tank seems happy at this time, so I'm stuck doing what I'm doing until something changes.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

I ended with some problems once my tank hit .03 PO4 and 0 Nitrates. Corals started to look terrible and some started to bleach. I think it was just too quick of a change.

I ended up stopping all dosing other than 2 part for the past week and a half or so and things are much better now. Some corals are slower than others to recover but all seem to be getting better.

It was a good lesson. Don't dose anything, especially carbon without testing daily and don't start unless you really need to. I had no real good reason to start.