Jdgreef24
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Yesterday I started dosing 1 ML/D of MB7 in hopes that it will help a slime breakout on a 6-7 month old dry rock tank where it's just obvious the rock is not conquered yet. Anybody have any experience with this?
Dosing Microbacter7 daily?
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I think a better option would be to dose some chemi clean and then use either microbacter clean or dr tims waste away (so long as your nitrate and phosphate aren't 0. However this isn't to say that the standard microbacter won't do anything.
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Different product (Microbacter Clean) but be might berelevant.
New tool in the help to fight Cyano - Microbacter CLEAN
Greeting fellow reefers, I wanted to share my experience with a product I recently purchased. Reefer 250 started from dry rock and sand approx. 5 months ago. Seeded the tank with Fritz Turbo and have continued doing Microbacter 7 since startup. The cycle went well but shortly after the cycle I...
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Honestly just get some chemi clean and then dose the microbacter after the cyano is wiped. Chemi clean works so well. I just used it at work on a biocube and the tank is spotless now.
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So that’s one of my problems. Hanna ULR is telling me I’m at .02 (after feeding heavier+aquavitro fuel) and Nyos says no more than 1 nitrate (give or take error window) so I’m trying to implement ideas without bottoming out because I was at 0 and 0. I was hoping the bottle-bac going in would help level the playing field instead of just fueling the cyano bloom while I raise things up. also cut lighting to 5 hours for a week.
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No nitrate = cyano. Cyano gets their nitrogen from the atmosphere. You need to raise Nitrate and phosphate. Dosing is the easiest way. Dosing bacteria designed to lower these will make things worse
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So I dosed the microbacter7 1ml/day just to power charge the bacteria because I run a slow flow UV and worry I kill too much passing through. UV light is off for following 2 hours. Reefled90s at 85% from 11-4. Convinced the wife to put black out curtains in the room it’s in. I read somewhere that Cyano likes funny angled light so those went up yesterday. Stopped feeding the tangs Spirulina20 (the blue bucket stuff) because I just feel like that stuff causes problems, and trying to feed more consistently. If it wasn’t for the aeration on the skimmer I’d cut the schedule on that too. Also started leaving my little floss pads in till their flat and nasty. Cyano is still there and dark but is visibly thinner to the point that it peels back off the rocks from the flow. I’ll keep posting here as things change. It truly is a different beast not using any live rock in a build.
