HELP Vibrant for reef aquariums

ReefGrammie · Dec 17, 2019

I'm so sorry to hear about your losses!! I saw this thread because I'm using Vibrant right now for a hair algae problem, with no issues so far. I will certainly keep a good eye on everything!

Forshurley · Jan 11, 2020

Makes me sad to hear your fish passed away, looks like you had some beautiful fish.

I just finished my first bottle in my 120g tank. I dosed 20ml every two weeks and took months to finish bottle and had good results getting rid of bubble algae. I plan on continuing to dose to keep nuisance algae at bay.

I think you should continue to dose vibrant tell your tank cleans up and then start to re introduce fish, dont give up!

jccaclimber · Jan 11, 2020

Sorry to hear of the losses. I believe that the issue was somehow caused by the Vibrant being added, but doubt the ammonia is the cause. I like others have seen things survive 1 PPM ammonia near startup, and certainly for more than hours. I suspect the ammonia is a secondary effect of whatever started the dieoff.
This reminds me of the sort of cascading death that I've seen when palytoxin hits a tank, then everything starts to slime, then the palys get even more unhappy and things start to die. What other toxic organisms could do this?

adrianr514 · Jan 11, 2020

So I have to jump on the band wagon that Vibrant didn’t cause the issue. I dose Vibrant daily because I chase that crystal clear water look. I don’t even measure how much I’m dosing. I literally just give the bottle a light squeeze and what ever amount shoots out seems to be working. Zero deaths, zero corals affected, zero bacterial blooms. Your issue was definitely something else and it just so happened to have reached its peak when you dosed Vibrant.

Daddy-o · Jan 11, 2020

@XandryaLynn Sorry to hear about your losses! If you are local to Nor-Cal we would like to give you some corals to help get your reef pretty again.
Mark

eraserhead187 · Jan 12, 2020

Did you see this thread? Somebody else recently had a similar incident.

Vibrant gone terribly wrong

I had used Vibrant and it caused a huge ammonia Spike. Killing all my fish in under 2hrs. ( My daughter's thread as it was happening https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/help-vibrant-for-reef-aquariums.668454/) After weeks and lab testing Jeff over at UWC has not been able to tell me why this...

www.reef2reef.com

jccaclimber · Jan 12, 2020

eraserhead187 said:
Did you see this thread? Somebody else recently had a similar incident.

Vibrant gone terribly wrong

I had used Vibrant and it caused a huge ammonia Spike. Killing all my fish in under 2hrs. ( My daughter's thread as it was happening https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/help-vibrant-for-reef-aquariums.668454/) After weeks and lab testing Jeff over at UWC has not been able to tell me why this...

www.reef2reef.com

I thought it was the same tank.

eraserhead187 · Jan 12, 2020

jccaclimber said:
I thought it was the same tank.

Ahhhh so it is. Didn't catch the link there to the other thread, as it was by a different member. Gotcha.

SamAPFish · Jan 16, 2020

I’ve never heard of vibrant killing fish that quickly! If you haven’t figured out the cause, what if the bottle was accidentally sent concentrated? This probably isn’t it but try smelling the bottle because it shouldn’t smell

Daddy-o · Jan 16, 2020

I just started dosing in my 7 reefs and no issues.
Cheers! Mark

Infidel · Jan 17, 2020

XandryaLynn said:
what caused the fish to die was an rapid and extreme ammonia spike, after we pulled the fish out we tested the water and the ammonia level was roughly 0.5ppm-1.0ppm
so it technically wasnt an "oxygen" issue per-say.
UWC said the only time theyve run into something like this is when there are toxic dinos or toxins held within the algae, and that our tank probably also had toxins within the algae's.
but im still confused about what caused the ammonia to spike like that.

Sorry for your losses.

Was the product you used expired, exposed to extreme heat, or possibly not Vibrant? Nothing else I can think of would explain the ammonia spike.