ChemiClean Works! BUT

[Reefnjunkie]

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[brandon429]

The only aquarium that should ever use chemi clean is any aquarium too big to access and clean correctly. The cause of cyano invasions is a cloudy sandbed that if disturbed, emits clouding fuel all over the tank. Rocks from cyano systems / if shaken mid tank, a cloud comes off

Detritus storage causes cyano, and cleaning the tank and sandbed fixes cyano at three times the rate chemi clean might work, and it also removes clouding which gha, dinos, and other invaders enjoy

Using chemi clean is bad, we shouldn’t. But if the tank is so big it can’t be cleaned (solid design idea?) or the keeper literally wants to keep the waste even though it’s causing them to add antibiotics, then use chemi clean. If the number one thing you do not want to do is command your tank to perform without adding antibiotics, use chemi clean.

Chemi clean works but, it trains you to allow the next invasion and then counter dose to avoid that. Makes you a back seat reefer. Reactive vs proactive
External locus of control vs internal
It’s bad training

It’s the fast fooding of your reef tank. It literally guarantees you’ll be invaded again with something new within the year lol. Chemi clean is the Big Mac of reefing

Someone make and work out a chemi clean only thread for all the current cyano challenges

By page ten we will have all the data required to see patterns, it works about half the time and it has high rates of losses as well compared to simple manual cleaning threads

 

[tania]

Interesting to see my phosphates raised from 0.03 to 0.15 in a week.

Any reason for this after using ChemiClean?

I read that it is because the cyano was eating the phosphates. Now the cyano is eliminated so your phosphates are showing their true numbers.