Vibrant Availability?

redfishbluefish · Nov 18, 2018

I'm interested in giving Vibrant a try and started looking at my top four go-to retailers (BRS, Dr. F&S, PA, Marine Depot), only to find none of them carry it. I was surprised they don't have Vibrant.

Gareth elliott · Nov 18, 2018

I picked up mine from amazon.

redfishbluefish · Nov 18, 2018

Thanks @Gareth elliott . Yep, found it on both eBay and Amazon. Just surprised the major retailers don't carry this stuff.

cromag27 · Nov 18, 2018

redfishbluefish said:
Thanks @Gareth elliott . Yep, found it on both eBay and Amazon. Just surprised the major retailers don't carry this stuff.

maybe because it keeps giving people cyano.

redfishbluefish · Nov 18, 2018

I wasn't aware of this...and haven't read the mega-post on Vibrant....just too long....but not overly surprised because the dying algae is releasing all those nutrients into your tank. I plan on large water changes during this process, hopefully avoiding any nutrient overload issues.

cromag27 · Nov 18, 2018

redfishbluefish said:
I wasn't aware of this...and haven't read the mega-post on Vibrant....just too long....but not overly surprised because the dying algae is releasing all those nutrients into your tank. I plan on large water changes during this process, hopefully avoiding any nutrient overload issues.

lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of people have reported cyano after use, including me. some had full tank crashes. who knows if that was a direct result of using the product though.

wesman42 · Nov 18, 2018

cromag27 said:
lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of people have reported cyano after use, including me. some had full tank crashes. who knows if that was a direct result of using the product though.

Care to link some of the threads or observations? I wanted to give it a go as well.

AdamNC · Nov 18, 2018

cromag27 said:
lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of people have reported cyano after use, including me. some had full tank crashes. who knows if that was a direct result of using the product though.

I actually had success with it killing off my bubble algae AND gha. Took about 3/4 of an 8 oz. bottle but it worked well in a 29 gallon tank. At the same time though I was also dosing nopox so it may have been a combination of the two. And end result for me was no cyano, no invert or coral loss.

4FordFamily · Nov 18, 2018

Vibrant has been amazing on my 180 tang reef tank. No algae or unsightly crap. Using it a couple months and within one week I went from cleaning my glass 4x per week to once, or less.

AdamNC · Nov 18, 2018

redfishbluefish said:
I'm interested in giving Vibrant a try and started looking at my top four go-to retailers (BRS, Dr. F&S, PA, Marine Depot), only to find none of them carry it. I was surprised they don't have Vibrant.

If you need more of it you can get it directly from them.

https://www.uwcmn.com/vibrant-liquid-aquarium-cleaner

Dtfnemo · Nov 18, 2018

If you have a lot of algae just keep up with your water changes and you will be fine, it works for sure but you need to help remove the excess nutrients all that algae is going to release

cromag27 · Nov 18, 2018

wesman42 said:
Care to link some of the threads or observations? I wanted to give it a go as well.

i tried to use it for hair algae and red turf algae. did nothing but cause cyano. it was easier to nuke the rock since it was a nano tank.

just a few...

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/cyano-after-vibrant.376070/

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/at-a-stalemate-with-cyano-po4.413344/#post-4866542

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/yet-another-cyano-battle.402003/#post-4800305

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/cyano-after-vibrant.282485/

cromag27 · Nov 18, 2018

AdamNC said:
I actually had success with it killing off my bubble algae AND gha. Took about 3/4 of an 8 oz. bottle but it worked well in a 29 gallon tank. At the same time though I was also dosing nopox so it may have been a combination of the two. And end result for me was no cyano, no invert or coral loss.

no doubt it can work. but be prepared for lots of water changes to remove nutrients.

cromag27 · Nov 18, 2018

i will add that i used the rest of the bottle at maintenance level and it did keep my glass clean!

Gareth elliott · Nov 18, 2018

I also got cyano after using, but my nitrate bottomed out while using in conjunction with biopellets. Had no algae for about a month then bam dinos. This was my doing not the vibrant though.

Worked great on my bubble algae. Anecdotally dont use while using carbon dosing [emoji23].

crawling junk · Nov 18, 2018

I got cyano after using it last year and still have traces of it today

cromag27 · Nov 18, 2018

crawling junk said:
I got cyano after using it last year and still have traces of it today

do you have high no3 or po4?

wesman42 · Nov 18, 2018

Dtfnemo said:
If you have a lot of algae just keep up with your water changes and you will be fine, it works for sure but you need to help remove the excess nutrients all that algae is going to release

Wouldn't that just be the same thing as doing regular water changes for nutrient export?

cromag27 said:
i tried to use it for hair algae and red turf algae. did nothing but cause cyano. it was easier to nuke the rock since it was a nano tank.

just a few...

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/cyano-after-vibrant.376070/

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/at-a-stalemate-with-cyano-po4.413344/#post-4866542

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/yet-another-cyano-battle.402003/#post-4800305

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/cyano-after-vibrant.282485/

Thank you!!

cromag27 · Nov 18, 2018

wesman42 said:
Wouldn't that just be the same thing as doing regular water changes for nutrient export?

i believe the theory is that the dead algae will release a huge amount of nutrients which need to be aggressively removed. not sure though.

i have always had a theory that cyano outbreaks are caused by a drastic imbalance of no3 and po4. this was a non-scientific conclusion i came up with many years ago while using nopox.

Dtfnemo · Nov 19, 2018

wesman42 said:
Wouldn't that just be the same thing as doing regular water changes for nutrient export?

Thank m

wesman42 said:
Wouldn't that just be the same thing as doing regular water changes for nutrient export?

Thank you!!

Water changes are great for nutrient export but in my experience if you have a lot of algae water changes help keep it under control but wont eradicate it.
Vibrant will kill it but you need to help remove the excess nutrients that the algae is going to leave behind when it dies