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sedor · 01/06/2011, 10:33 AM

Just read an interesting article:
http://www.coralscience.org/main/art...-5/amino-acids

According to the above mentioned article amino acids do indeed help the growth of coral, especially in nutrient poor systems. In the wild about 20% of a corals intake is amino acids, however in our home aquariums we can "trick" the coral into using quite a bit more. My conclusions based on this article is that amino acid supplementation may be necessary in situations where your coral are looking washed out due to a lack a nutrients.

So thats amino acids...now how about other supplements to help with color?

01/06/2011, 10:33 AM	#12
sedor Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 4,689	Just read an interesting article: http://www.coralscience.org/main/art...-5/amino-acids According to the above mentioned article amino acids do indeed help the growth of coral, especially in nutrient poor systems. In the wild about 20% of a corals intake is amino acids, however in our home aquariums we can "trick" the coral into using quite a bit more. My conclusions based on this article is that amino acid supplementation may be necessary in situations where your coral are looking washed out due to a lack a nutrients. So thats amino acids...now how about other supplements to help with color? __________________ Ryan