Doctor Tim's Waste Away contents?

[malfist]

Hey Yall

I was wonder if anybody knew what exactly was in Dr Tim's waste away bacterial additive. I've been battling a dino problem for a little while now, and Dr. Tim claims that the waste away can help. I've been treating my aquarium with DinoX and UV, and after complete dose cycle (15 doses of dinoX) I've been adding waste away to see if it can prevent a comeback, hoping it can colonize the surfaces dinos would normally colonize.

However I've not had much luck with this approach. In fact, I got curious today and shook my bottle and then put a small amount of waste away under a microscope and found what looks to be dinos...in the bottle of waste away. I'm attaching photos.

If waste away does contain dinos that might explain the reoccuring problem I'm having with my dino population. However, I don't know what I'm doing and it's highly likely this is some cross contamination.

Does anyone know what's actually supposed to be in waste away? Should I just toss the remainder of my bottle?

 

[Spare time]

You can email them and they should be able to tell you. They did this with eco balance when I asked.

But basically, it should be a bunch of heterotrophic bacteria. I am confident that the dino is just cross contamination with your slide or whatever you used to get the liquid.

 

[brandon429]

Waste Away: Is it really bacterial? Or chemical? What does it do?

[Edits for clarity - 4/21 - shown in brackets] I've been looking into debris that accumulates in the sand (Dan's Thread for that discussion) in our tanks and ways to "clean it up" whatever that means. In the process Waste Away by Dr Tim and similar "grunge-eating" products became of interest...

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[Spare time]

PS If it is a dino issue, consider raising phosphate (and nitrate if needed for this part), then dosing waste away.

 

[malfist]

PS If it is a dino issue, consider raising phosphate (and nitrate if needed for this part), then dosing waste away.

Already done, I dose ESV's nitrate (calcium nitrate I believe) and dilution of sodium phosphate dibasic. Nitates run around 5-15ppm and phosphates ~.1-.14 per hanna checkers.

 

[hbash]

Apparently, Waste Away lowers pH a lot!!! I just removed two gel sticks from my sump as I was having trouble with pH with Calcium Reactot before I added this. I went from 8.03 to 7.95 YEOW!

Does anyone know if my removal can have bad side affects?