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Vibrant is a very powerful nitrate reducer. Lots of people who use it get cyano, which I also did. Best advice I can give is to start slow. If your nitrates crash faster than your phosphates that throws the cyano door wide open. I would do one regular dose in your DT and measure your nitrates 2 days later. Odds are they will start climbing. Then it becomes a balancing game to control the rate that you kill algae off with your ability to remove nutrients. It seems the people who jump to 2 doses a week run into cyano very quickly.I used vibrant at the shop and ended up with cyano in both tanks I used it in. I wonder what I did wrong if it works so well for others. Hmm. I simply followed the directions on the bottle. Any tips? I still have some left.
My fuge light is a Fluval LED. It's done wonders for years..... until now.
Didn't you upgrade your DT lighting with the new tank? I could never grow chaeto in my fuge until I did a serious light upgrade. Now, it grows like a weed. Hardly any algae in my DT with a large CuC, a few tangs, and dosing Vibrant every other week. And I am a heavy feeder.