The Vibrant Liquid Aquarium Cleaner Thread

[GoFish]

So bad news and more bad news.
1. UWC is now backordered on all their Vibrant products
2. My snails will be hungry very soon with nothing to eat

[kengeroo]

just wondering about their secret mojo sauce ..

perhaps vinegar ???

does anyone use vinegar for carbon dosing ??

and if yes,, do you have a bryopsis/algae problem ????

https://www.google.ca/search?rlz=1C1...w=1024&bih=742

[davej]

I dose vinegar daily, no bryopsis, only bubble algae, and a little fuzzy dark dark green hair algae.
Hair algae only seems to be growing on plastic stuff. Frag rack feeding ring and lin-loc, not on rock.
But Vibrant has still made a noticeable difference on algae growth on my glass. (WAY less)

[GoFish]

Originally Posted by kengeroo

just wondering about their secret mojo sauce ..

perhaps vinegar ???

does anyone use vinegar for carbon dosing ??

and if yes,, do you have a bryopsis/algae problem ????

https://www.google.ca/search?rlz=1C1...w=1024&bih=742

There's 0.5% vinegar in the product so I doubt that's the secret mojo. Most likely the "95% cultured bacterial blend" or maybe the "3.5% other ingredients/RO/DI" (bottle says "other", website says "RO/DI")
I put a little bit on the tip of my tongue last night, it's very bitter, a little bit acidic and leaves a tingly/numb feeling, I don't recommend anyone try that, yuck.
There is a VERY slight odour of some type of natural fragrance. Someone had mentioned somewhere eucalyptus, it could be that, I don't know what eucalyptus smells like

[SoloSK71]

Originally Posted by GoFish

I don't recommend anyone try that

Story of my life man, usually after a bang, boom, large crash, or me asking where my eyebrows just got to.


Charles

[tang daddy]

Is anyone still doing weekly doses of this stuff?

[kengeroo]

I'm going to stop now that the fluconazole has done the job that vibrant was originally intended to do..

Originally Posted by tang daddy

Is anyone still doing weekly doses of this stuff?

[kyl]

Originally Posted by tang daddy

Is anyone still doing weekly doses of this stuff?

Yes, on both my nano tanks. On my 20 the glass stays clean about twice as long, bubble algae is almost completely gone and the dinos are a non-issues now. On the 10 GHA is down to a few strands now and dinos are about where the 20 was ~two weeks ago, being beaten into submission.

[GoFish]

Originally Posted by tang daddy

Is anyone still doing weekly doses of this stuff?

Yes will continue to do so until the 5 bubble algae blobs are gone, after that will continue once every 2 weeks to keep the glass clean. I haven't had to clean the glass since starting 2 weeks ago

Originally Posted by kengeroo

I'm going to stop now that the fluconazole has done the job that vibrant was originally intended to do..

Vibrant is an aquarium "cleaner" that will "eventually" take care of Bryopsis. The Fluc is Bryopsis specific, so if the only algae you have/had is Bryopsis and you don't see the benefit of not having to clean your glass as often and have no other algae types you want to get rid of then I guess the Fluc was all you needed

[tang daddy]

I did one heavy dose a couple weeks ago and it was enough to weakened the hair algae and bryopsis making it easy for removal, the bubble algae melted till only a few left, but because it dropped down the po4 fast and ****ed off the Lps and softies. I backed completely off the Vibrant and performed 2 30g wc, Po4 rose again and I had started fluco meds because the bryopsis was still around and getting stronger, now that's completely gone after a recommended dose of 20mg/gal. Bubble is slowly infesting again, so this time I just dosed about 3ml per 100g to see how the corals react, if they are ok I will dose another 3ml in 3 days and continue to follow that dosage as I don't want to shock my non sps corals.

Did anyone notice that when the bubble melted there was some sort of green slime engulfing certain areas of the remaining bubble?