Cyanobacteria and lit candles

[Subsea]

“Lots of people use candles to ignite flatulance, and I believe this thread is amazingly similar in some ways?“

Kris
You are a hoot. Thank you for edification. It made my day.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

It’s important that precise and accurate information is presented in the guide for beginners before investing a lot of money in this hobby but the author of this guide seems to have been a bit sloppy in doing this - yes?

I’m not sure I can trust anything posted in this forum now as trustworthy, accurate and precise. Disappointing.

That’s an overreaction. I think you may need to understand that there are lots of things that may contribute to lots of good and bad things without causing them in every tank.

Think cigarettes and cancer. Does a case of a person smoking and not getting cancer prove it false? Of course not.

There IS a correlation that some folks have noticed between various activities such as scented candles and cyano, and there is a good reason to think it plausible. I have seen this mentioned by many folks over the years who experienced it.

Candles and air fresheners launch organics into the air. Cyano consumes organics. Adding additional organics can plausibly boost cyano in many settings.

This study shows that candles both add organics to the air, and can change the nature of bacteria in the air:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11933706/