Do you recommend vibrant for cyanobacteria treatment?

[Porcupine Reefer]

Tried microbacter7 and did not do anything noticeable for my cyanobacteria outbreak. I have not tried vibrant and was wondering if anyone would recommend it.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

No.

 

[Garf]

No, put a pic up.

 

[Uncle99]

No. Vibrant works on green stuff, cleared bubble algae for me. Many hate it, but it did appear to work in my case.

Cyano is a bacteria, try Chemi-Clean, reasonably fool proof.

Make sure you’ve corrected the imbalance that caused it first or it may just return after treatment.

 

[crazyfishmom]

Bacterial treatments work but it’ll take weeks before you see results. Vibrant is definitely not a good idea.

Cyano Clean is a bacterial species that helped me with a pretty bad Cyano outbreak. Took about 4 weeks for it to be fully eradicated but al of my corals remained healthy and I didn’t have a nutrient imbalance at the end of the dosing period.

 

[taricha]

the class of algaecides in question are actually more effective against all of cyanos competitors - diatoms, green algae etc. And using them often results in tanks getting cyano as other algae types are killed/stressed.

 

[Jon!]

I had red slime algae all over my sand and rocks. I tried chemiclean multiple times and it was not effective for more than a few days. I am on my second dose of Vibrant and it's almost gone. Vibrant for me has been much more effective. Has not harmed acros or mushrooms.

 

[BriDroid]

Chemiclean will kill a lot of bacteria, not just the cyano. It will then cause an imbalance and you will most likely get brown stuff growing (at least I did).

 

[painter1982]

I used Chemiclean in my sps tank with zero problems. Cyano gone in 48 hours. No problems afterwards. Followed directions exactly. I did dose with microbacter7 afterwards. People that say they had problems had the problem starting anyways.

 

[JumboShrimp]

(Your getting lots of good advice here.)

 

[BryanM]

Tried microbacter7 and did not do anything noticeable for my cyanobacteria outbreak. I have not tried vibrant and was wondering if anyone would recommend it.

I would not recommend vibrant for my mortal enemies tank. Just run away from that stuff.