What is the point of Live Rock Enhance?
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WalkerLoves_TheOcean
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There is no such thing as a dumb question! 
Here is a direct quote from Saltwateraquarium.com
"Live Rock Enhance™ contains microbial spores and their attendant enzymes. The ingredients in Live Rock Enhance™ eat and dissolve detritus, dead algae, slime and decomposing life attached to, and within, rocks, sand, in the aquarium and/or in live rock curing containers.
Live Rock Enhance™ will help unclog biofilters, refugiums, and places decomposing detritus accumulates. Allows colonization of desirable organisms faster and prevents impacted detritus from interfering with colonization."
It just helps the nitrifying bacteria grow, and also helps to clean your tank in a way.
Here is a direct quote from Saltwateraquarium.com
"Live Rock Enhance™ contains microbial spores and their attendant enzymes. The ingredients in Live Rock Enhance™ eat and dissolve detritus, dead algae, slime and decomposing life attached to, and within, rocks, sand, in the aquarium and/or in live rock curing containers.
Live Rock Enhance™ will help unclog biofilters, refugiums, and places decomposing detritus accumulates. Allows colonization of desirable organisms faster and prevents impacted detritus from interfering with colonization."
It just helps the nitrifying bacteria grow, and also helps to clean your tank in a way.
Reefering1
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To transfer money from your bank account to theirs..
So a question, is this something one would use in an established tank? I have never heard of it before.just curious. Is it something similar to Microbacter 7.There is no such thing as a dumb question!
Here is a direct quote from Saltwateraquarium.com
"Live Rock Enhance™ contains microbial spores and their attendant enzymes. The ingredients in Live Rock Enhance™ eat and dissolve detritus, dead algae, slime and decomposing life attached to, and within, rocks, sand, in the aquarium and/or in live rock curing containers.
Live Rock Enhance™ will help unclog biofilters, refugiums, and places decomposing detritus accumulates. Allows colonization of desirable organisms faster and prevents impacted detritus from interfering with colonization."
It just helps the nitrifying bacteria grow, and also helps to clean your tank in a way.
WalkerLoves_TheOcean
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I believe you can, but I don't believe it is necessary as you already have an established nitrifying bacteria population. I guess you could use it to help dissolve things like detritus, but I am not too sure.
I’ve bought MB7 …seemed like it worked, but anything that works over days is always hard to prove efficacy given all the daily tank variables….
but this product, not sure but To me sounds like they are really piling it on hereThere is no such thing as a dumb question!
Here is a direct quote from Saltwateraquarium.com
"Live Rock Enhance™ contains microbial spores and their attendant enzymes. The ingredients in Live Rock Enhance™ eat and dissolve detritus, dead algae, slime and decomposing life attached to, and within, rocks, sand, in the aquarium and/or in live rock curing containers.
Live Rock Enhance™ will help unclog biofilters, refugiums, and places decomposing detritus accumulates. Allows colonization of desirable organisms faster and prevents impacted detritus from interfering with colonization."
It just helps the nitrifying bacteria grow, and also helps to clean your tank in a way.
probably
WalkerLoves_TheOcean
2500 Club Member
Yeah, it's always hard to tell because of tank variabilitys. I assume before any reef product is put to sale, they go through multiple tests. Especially things that mess with water chemistry. And yes, large reef retailers tend to make a product seem too good to be true. I believe this product does its job, just not as well as it is advertises.
I am one to limit the bad guys, quarantine fish and dipping coral frags is a must
Reefering1
Valuable Member
Did you quarantine your bottled bacteria before cycling your dry rock with it?
Far from definitive, but it looks like some sort of yeast to me, maybe with a little of something else;
Reef Enhance Bread
The wife ordered some Liverock Enhance from a vendor over here in the UK. He sent her Reef Enhance in error and refused any responsibility for his mistake and accused her of some elaborate scam, lol. However it appears both products are identical except for some magic enzyme added to the reef...
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Tavero
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Reminds me of a product with similar promises and effectiveness.There is no such thing as a dumb question!
Here is a direct quote from Saltwateraquarium.com
"Live Rock Enhance™ contains microbial spores and their attendant enzymes. The ingredients in Live Rock Enhance™ eat and dissolve detritus, dead algae, slime and decomposing life attached to, and within, rocks, sand, in the aquarium and/or in live rock curing containers.
Live Rock Enhance™ will help unclog biofilters, refugiums, and places decomposing detritus accumulates. Allows colonization of desirable organisms faster and prevents impacted detritus from interfering with colonization."
It just helps the nitrifying bacteria grow, and also helps to clean your tank in a way.
Just FYI, only a tiny fraction of the microbial stuff on reefs can be cultured and stuck in a bottle (Coral . . . @ 6:30). If you really want to improve the microbial diversity in your system get Reef Rubble and/or reef sand from Aquabiomics (it's tested to assure no pathogens are present) or get maricultured live rock or maricultured live sand from Gulf Live ROck, KP Aquatics or Tampa Bay Saltwater. If you can find, and afford,wild live rock and get it shipped air frieght that would be better
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