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![]() I am not a company. I am a hobbyist.
That makes a big difference. A company's way of doing things would be to use the cheapest ingredients possible and stretch it with fillers, so they can make the biggest profit. I do this because my love for LPS corals, espeically my acans. I don't make coral food for the money. In fact I do not make any money off selling this food. Whatever I make goes back into buying the ingredients. I don't get paid for the labour, time and effort that goes into the production of the food. My personal goal is, and always will be, to make the highest quality food to promote the greatest amount of growth and just have healthy beautiful corals PERIOD. I believe the growth and size of my corals speak for themselves. I am not going to BS anybody by using cheesy marketing slogans or promote my food using words like "roids", "ultra" and "ultimate". I am not a wrestling promoter, you know... Or showing a video of dropping a pellet onto an "Ultra Acan". I can drop any kind of pellet on an Acan and of course it will eventually eat it. That does not say much about the quality of the food and how it will promote the health and growth of your corals. But isn't that the whole point in feeding your corals? Certain people endorsing Fauna Marin should get their facts straight. Acan Plus is NOT a "simple cocktail of other already marketed products". I should know, because like all coral owners, I used to try all those products in a desperate attempt to keep my corals healthy, but only with poor results. That's when I decided to do some research and make my own coral food from scratch. There is nothing "simple" about my food. It takes me an average of 6 hours to make 12 bottles of Acan Plus. There are over 10 different ingredients in Acan Plus (soon will be 13 as I am working on a new formula). It took me a long time to find out what the corals prefer to eat, which ingredient entices them or stimulates their growth. I also only use the highest quality ingredients available. For the record there is NO Artemia, NO Zooplankton or Phytoplankton powder in Acan Plus. Most coral products contain these because they are cheap fillers. Somebody said "ANYTHING could be in there." Wrong. I don't just put anything in my food. Every single ingredient has been tested extensively for its nutritional value to promote the greatest amount of growth. Keep in mind that I put the same food I'm selling into my own tank every day and I am definitely not putting "just anything" in there. I have been working on this food for years now. I do not disclose anything on how I process and make the food, because I am not giving big companies like Fauna Marin tips on how to copy me. I have already seen Fauna Marin referring to their new acan food as "Ultra Acan Plus" and using my description and text almost word for word. Should I just hand them my recipe as well? Last edited by JMes; 03-19-2011 at 03:30 AM. |