4 month cycle and vibrant

[Gatorheadman]

Im currently into week 1 on my 4 month tank cycle as laid out by BRS. My question is when I turn on my lights and get ready for the ugly cycle to show up will dosing vibrant help hold down the various algae’s that show up or should I not dos vibrant and let nature take its course?

 

[PDR]

I would not dose vibrant. I have read many stories of vibrant causing issues down the road and the whole point of the 4-month cycle is to let it work itself out naturally.

 

[jent]

I will never use vibrant again. Most my corals seemed ok, but I did quickly lose my favorite and largest acro after my first dose (which was a half dose too). I also lost a smaller superman montipra. Other sps, zoas, and lps lived, but never dosed again and never will. I should have stuck with my other methods which were working (ie good husbandry).

 

[Gatorheadman]

Thanks. I know that when I used it on my mixed tank I got a bad case of cyano.

 

[Mkeller088]

I will never use vibrant again. Most my corals seemed ok, but I did quickly lose my favorite and largest acro after my first dose (which was a half dose too). I also lost a smaller superman montipra. Other sps, zoas, and lps lived, but never dosed again and never will. I should have stuck with my other methods which were working (ie good husbandry).

Vibrant didn’t hurt your acro. It’s a very good bacteria, not a harmful chemical.

 

[piranhaman00]

Vibrant didn’t hurt your acro. It’s a very good bacteria, not a harmful chemical.

Wrong. Vibrant is a known sps killer. Vibrant is bad mmmmk ;)

 

[JCOLE]

Vibrant didn’t hurt your acro. It’s a very good bacteria, not a harmful chemical.

 

[brandon429]

Vibrant Killing Corals..

Interesting thread, I've never used vibrant specificly but my experience in general with bacteria type products is that you should always start with a much lower dose than manufacturers recommendations to see how your tank reacts. Usually if it's a weekly recommendation I try about an eighth and...

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work threads are such data gold.

on a good note: Vibrant is the best valonia control ever found in the hobby, so if you are expecting valonia in the uglies then use it. if not, what you should do is not dose vibrant AND not wreck your tank. expect the uglies but handle them in person with rocks removed, set out on the counter vs always seeing your reefing problems as a water/param adjust and test issue

reinstate manual dirty gardening, digging, burning where creative. outside the tank, make your rock stacks accessible is the best trick you'll ever do.

expect to be removing rocks, not altering your water params, so you can clean them off (and in the exposed spots siphon up mess on the sandbed) and set rocks back in the tank cleaned, manually guided.


you get to back off in two years, price of a dry start.

for sure you can forego all this, and you can see how untampered uglies is faring out for folks as well. direct access willingness and planning is what you want, not a purchase or a doser. its a resolve, not a $