Dr. Tim's Waste Away

[Breakthecycle2]

Anyone every use this product before?

 

[Breakthecycle2]

No one?

 

[Sabellafella]

No one?

Yanno wat im following along, i used to use his nitrifieng bacteria but after my last 3 tanks ive just cycled my rocks and evrything in advanced, because regardless you have to wait, i would love to see what people say about this stuff because ive ben having sick bacterial problems (massive massive sponge growth) nd want to see if is useful

 

[Breakthecycle2]

I just starting dosing. I'll keep this updated as much as possible. I just dosed all my tanks, mantis, QT and main.

 

[NeuroticAquatics]

Following along, as I have wondered how well it works. I've used their bacteria in all my tanks.

 

[Pepcrylic]

I used it. I set up a 300 DT. Ran it for 2 weeks, fed it every day. once I got an ammonia and nitrite reading I added the Dr Tims. 2 days later I had no measurable nitrates or ammonia. I dropped in my 8 fish and a butt load of coral. No losses yet. It has been 4 months running. I did still see a diatom cycle along with some algae growth.

 

[Breakthecycle2]

Are you referring to the quick start bacteria? This is different.

 

[Pepcrylic]

OOOOpppsss Never Mind

 

[brandon429]

verdict:

optional buy. not harmful to put in tank, removing detritus is the free alternative.



google sludge digesters in waterway management/limnology and septic tank management, this is using biota to reduce detritus put simply enough, harmless to use and fully optional. cannot make a tank better condition than simply removing the detritus. the bacteria that consume the detritus need an export mode themselves, there is no way to skirt the conservation of matter issue and these additives are typically used in large waterways to reverse eutrophication and fish kills due to sulfide issues/things associated with compressed rot etc

the natural currents within waterways help to move the materials that are indeed loosened by this digestion and cast up into the column, ideally. id never use it in my aquariums simply due to having no detritus storage in the first place but they are not harmful to purchase and dump in the tank, its simply a transfer of money among wallets.

chemical digesters include perchlorate and peroxide used in waterways management. the various powders and enzyme additives you see for sale are the dormant biota awaiting rehydration. detritus cannot actually be removed from an aquarium except by our mechanical work, it can however be allowed to dissimilate in the water and its components uptaken elsewhere.

 

[Tim Gentry]

I used this product and lost fish with it. May have been my fault. I would use this very carefully and make sure u use it exactly as directed. Not saying it doesn't work but I would start out at a lower than recommended dose. There are more than one reason to use this product and for what I need microbactor7 works fine.

 

[brandon429]

mb7 has a really long following online I do like it too. since my tanks are small and accessible for all invaders and detritus nothing else is needed, but for large tanks with occasional cyano issues this has saved several tanks for sure. I don't like to skirt detritus removal much, to me everything else is a bandaid. But for using one community of organisms to outcompete another (cyano) mb7 should be kept handy for the challenging events imo

rather than taking formal assessments at face value for the various product reviews we could search out, I prefer to actually see a product get worked through the web forums for 5+ yrs for a real world eval. applies to just about everything I can think of in reefing, mb7 showed to be useful many times.

 

[Wrasse-cal]

Bumping an old thread to add my experience. Based on my observations, waste away does work at reducing nitrate and phosphates. It also does cause a drop in pH. I added 75 ml for a system volume of roughly 85 gallons.

In 24 hours, my PO4 were reduced from 0.17 ppm to 0.00 ppm per my Hanna checker. Nitrates were lowered from ~5 ppm to ~2 ppm.

 

[Robert Binz]

Bumping an old thread to add my experience. Based on my observations, waste away does work at reducing nitrate and phosphates. It also does cause a drop in pH. I added 75 ml for a system volume of roughly 85 gallons.

In 24 hours, my PO4 were reduced from 0.17 ppm to 0.00 ppm per my Hanna checker. Nitrates were lowered from ~5 ppm to ~2 ppm.

Yeah that's because it's heterotrophic bacteria which consumes those nutrients along with the detritus. Vibrant does the same with except with algae instead of detritus.

What I'm really curious about is what's inside refresh tbh

 

[DSEKULA]

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