Red Sea Reef Energy ab+ Long Term: An Honest Review

I've been using Red Sea Reef Energy Plus for 18 months now. Here are my experiences and thoughts.

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0:00 Intro
0:23 My usage
0:49 ab+ in action
2:10 Coral growth
3:10 Coral health
4:40 Coral colouration
5:41 Down sides
7:46 Practicalities
8:55 Final thoughts

[raftai]

Too many reviewers are obviously bought to give favourable reviews. Love this balanced one. Subscribed.

[opethmike]

Straight forward, honest reviews like this are why yours is one of my favorite reef channels. <A not goofball comment from me, lol!>

[garrycole]

Your reviews are top notch and do you know why, because you have just as many cons as pros. Most reef channels out there are 90% pros vs cons which is not real life. I also think a lot of reefers "feel" like it helped their tanks to justify the cost and time to do that.

[valerio]

I have used it for a few months almost daily. Got cynaobacteria after this and stopped dosing. With A and B I didnt have any issues.

[chumbucket]

I have been using red sea energy for a year or so now and it's great stuff!

[paulukreefer]

Great vid thanks Alex. Such a difficult subject matter to be objective with. You did a cracking job. 👍

[eldiablo]

1st view. I love the videos been watching them since I started 18 months ago. Cheers from the USA.

[pn]

Nice honest review!! Red Sea aren't going to be happy - going to be coming after you with some sponsorship money after seeing this video has 20k views!!

[andrew]

Great vid 👍we love your honesty 😀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[klowranc]

Thanks for all of the great videos! Your tanks is amazing! I'm curious what are your tank parameters? BRS has done some solid research showing high Alk levels contribute heavily to improved coloration. I'm think about taking my SPS tank up to 12 and was wondering what your is at. Thanks!

[kevivjack]

Is this replacement of coral food like phyto/zoo planktons? Or its jus like multivitamin suppliment?

[LightSearch]

I wonder how much of the benefits of dosing aminos comes from the increase in bacteria instead of direct absorption by the corals.

In my tank, aminos are cyano in a bottle.

[deanfielding]

Do you have a video on chilling tanks in the UK?
I only need something subtle, and I’m thinking maybe just a small pump to pump water through my fridge!
Didn’t want to spend the money, energy and space on a full blown chiller, and after all we’re in the UK so I only want to gently do it.
I successfully managed to cool my nano tank last year with a fan, a tray of water and an absorbent cloth/paper towel. I dipped the cloth in the tray of water, stuck the wet cloth to the side of my tank and blew the fan at it. The evaporation effect cooled the tank and then all I had to do was top up the tray of water as capillary action drew up the water into the cloth as it evaporated. That way I didn’t need to add more RODI water and I kept the lid on my tank. It worked pretty well for the few weeks heat wave we had in the UK and was cheap and I had the bits laying around.

[ajsreef]

Need to give Coral Essentials "Juice" a go. Made a big difference in my reef.

[metsdynastyx]

I found every day dosing is way to much. Ended up with significant algae blooms. Always seems to happen when I try these coral foods/boosters. Worst is the bloody cyano and Dinos, ugh! But very nice informative video my friend.

[ccn]

My idea on feeding corals are feed Energy AB+ along with home culture phytoplankton. Thats a good way to not waste some much money.

[RBXXXX]

Great video but that's my biggest concern. The last time I used reef roid or food like this. I got Dino's, and I've never had it since I've stopped using these type of food.

[barrygorman]

Your tank looks first class how often do you feed to your tank with reef energy +

[rudra]

Are we going to get a video where you finally found a solution to vermited snails?! 😲

[KathouQC]

Do you need to keep in a refrigerator after use?