I also believe it will be good, and I apologize if I have given the impression that I am some how against feeding our systems. Quite the opposite actualy and also feed my system two 15ml doses of liquifed (by blender) shrimp each day, one dose during the day for my daytime feeders such as my turbinaria, and the other dose about two hours after lights off for the nocturnal feeders. To not feed a system would not make any sense at all to me. My issue is with adding additional amino acids in the form that is being suggested and with jacking up elements above their natural levels. Granted, it all probably does no harm, and it is very likely that it does no good either. At such small doses (sugar in mind) the system can probably deal with it, but should it have to? I just don't see it being of any use and more of a potential, however slight, problem. From reading others responses, A good many seem to be using the so called "light" version. Just feeding their systems. Thats great! and you will of course see your corals respond in kind. Any well fed animal would. As noted, any changes to a system needs to be done gradualy, all very sound advice.
Over the course of the last 25 years I have seen a great many "methods" come and go, and then come and go yet again. After the initial "wow" factor has worn off, it all usualy goes back to just plain old basic husbandry skills and trying to emulate nature a bit better (DSBs, water changes, feeding and so on). There is no magical formula for good coral health and growth, You will get the same results of any "flavor of the month" method by providing the corals with what they recieve in the wild, which is good water quality, good lighting situations, and food. I personaly have never seen a need to experiment with unnatural additives or unnatural levels of naturaly occuring elements. I've also never seen an unnatural additive / level method actualy do what is claimed of them. A lot of big words and explanations are used to justify them, but when has anyone ever actualy seen such methods last the test of time and the test of actual hard core data? Iodine dosing is a good example, how many claims were made that shrimp and soft corals NEED it, and need it in great quantities, and when this "info" hit the streets, almost everyone ran out and started dosing it. Yet there was no data what so ever to support it. The only data that I have seen shows it in a negative and/or "of no use" light. (per dosing). As is the case with all of the additive/level methods that I am aware of. They all tout a great benefit with just ancedotal observations and guessing, then when an actual study is done, quite the opposite is proven.
Again, by all means,
Please! feed your corals, but for me, I would hold off on the "additives" until a study is actualy done. The odds of such a study showing it being of harm, or at the least, being useless, are much greater than it being of use.
In my opinion. Ya'll have a great week!
Chuck
