Has anyone tested MicroBacter CLEAN like Vibrant was tested?

[Liquidlar]

I am just wondering because I think MicroBacter CLEAN tries to do the same thing that Vibrant did. I could be wrong was just curious.

 

[blaxsun]

I don't believe anyone has to-date, no.

 

[Dan_P]

I am just wondering because I think MicroBacter CLEAN tries to do the same thing that Vibrant did. I could be wrong was just curious.

@taricha did some work on this product, I believe. Bacteria products would seem more difficult to test because the claims are difficult to measure.

 

[taricha]

Nope. MB Clean contains no polyquat.
MicroBacter Clean was actually in the first set of comparison bacterial products I checked, in order to see just how weird Vibrant was for a bacterial additive.
You can see it here...

So I dried drops of a few different things on glass slides and then applied a drop of bromophenol blue to the residue of each.


Top slide: tap water, tank water, AlgaeFix marine.
Bottom slide: Waste Away, MicroBacter 7, MicroBacter Clean
Right slide: Vibrant
The bromophenol blue kept its normal purple appearance for all except Algaefix and Vibrant, which caused it to turn blue.
(vibrant, algaefix, and their dried residues are slightly acidic - so could not be causing the BPB to shift to blue by high pH)

(Other chemical tests also find no polyquat in MB Clean.)

 

[Justdrew]

Performance wise I’d say Razor is closer to Vibrant.

 

[Liquidlar]

Thanks for informing me guys, really grateful there is people in the hobby willing to check this stuff.

 

[taricha]

Performance wise I’d say Razor is closer to Vibrant.

Brightwell is explicit on the bottle that Razor is a polymer, so I guess they aren't hiding the ball on that one too much.