Does Microbactor Clean work?

[glb]

I’ve heard good things about Brightwell Microbactor Clean or Microbactor 7 helping with the sludge and other stuff that accumulates on rocks, sand, etc. Is this a good product in your opinion? My tank is about two years old and the rocks do tend to accumulate gunk. I’m still working on flow as another solution. Nutrient levels are low (No3-2.5, Po4-0). Any advice is appreciated!!!

 

[brandon429]

Yes those are a good bet for a trial run. They reduce the collected mass via heterotrophic bacterial digestion -for removal via your currents, system catches like filter socks, or during your cleaning intervals-

Those products loosen the accumulations so that something else removes them eventually, they do not make the floc and periphyton layers go away, they do help break it down. They’re a great thing to try, any one of those types of products. In the case of some lucky dinos invasions and cyano challenges, those products have directly killed the target. Not as many as tank cleans accomplish but enough to be recommended easy to try option.

 

[brandon429]

If I owned a tank large enough that full water changes were not an easy option, I’d always have correctly sized UV running and a few of those digesters to choose from/emergencies

They’re harmless to try which is why I like them better than meds etc

 

[glb]

Thanks! I treated the cyano with Chemiclean and that helped. I’m hoping this stuff can keep the rocks cleaner.

 

[glb]

Here’s some pics of what’s on my rocks. Some of it looks like white hairs. This is what I’m trying to get rid of. Eww

 

[brandon429]

Yes that's periphyton growth, generalized live rock colonizers


To scuba divers, that plus corals is what a real reef looks like, they're not usually all pristine like in select places. The looks we want for our tank are unnatural.


I would not think those products will cut through that. Your documentation of various trials against it is helpful for reference building though

 

[glb]

Yes that's periphyton growth, generalized live rock colonizers


To scuba divers, that plus corals is what a real reef looks like, they're not usually all pristine like in select places. The looks we want for our tank are unnatural.


I would not think those products will cut through that. Your documentation of various trials against it is helpful for reference building though

Oh ok, as long as it’s not harmful. But there is also a lot of sludge. Hopefully the product will get rid of that. Thanks again for your help!

 

[chefjpaul]

Yes that's periphyton growth, generalized live rock colonizers


To scuba divers, that plus corals is what a real reef looks like, they're not usually all pristine like in select places. The looks we want for our tank are unnatural.

I love getting the "ugly" pics while diving, never seen a "pristine" reef...yet this is actually pristine.

 

[chefjpaul]

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[glb]

I love getting the "ugly" pics while diving, never seen a "pristine" reef...yet this is actually pristine.

Very true.

 

[glb]

So I’ll leave the white stuff alone and work on cleaning up the sludge. Thanks everyone!

 

[Halal Hotdog]

I am also interested in this product, does anyone have before and after pictures?

 

[Reefahholic]

Apparently nobody has used it. I'd like to know if it works.

 

[brandon429]

That can only be answered by seeing a pic of the tank to discern the needs, and then from several hundred logged prior tank works someone will be able to guess as to whether the doser will out compete a standard tank cleanup job.

it cannot be guaranteed to work from anyone's prior experience, its used for various actions like trying to beat dinos, or cyano, and in most cases people are trying to avoid manual export work in the tank by using it. Since detritus can't be broken down much further at a fast enough rate to compete with manual export, Ill claim it doesnt work to replace tank cleaning for long term reefs. at no point in my reefing scheme will a bottle bac be needed to purchase.