Out of curiosity, what were you expecting the product to do?
Its a fair question and in all honesty I don't have a good answer. Its a new product being discussed in reef circles with the usual debate of benefit vs snake oil, so I wanted to try it for myself and have my own opinion.
Hi Brad, yes, I think our last convo ended with J&L Aquatics discontinuing, and another, larger distributor potentially taking it on. I definitely didn't mean to leave you hanging, I guess we too were kind of hanging on while waiting for a decision from the 'new' distributor, who unfortunately never took the final steps of physically getting a box across the border. To their credit, I believe they were waiting until we released the revamped packaging and new product (PNS Deep Cycle) before squeezing the trigger (which totally makes sense to me). But I agree, it's about time! I promise I've already got Bel and you on a list of Canadian friends to contact when we have a presence up North again. I also promise that I'll start prodding some dealers up there harder until we're back on Canadian shelves. Might be a bit trickier right now given the present state of trade relations between our countries, but I'll do my best and reach out to let you know before the first box even touches ground. Thank you so, so much for your patience, and also for your ongoing interest in our brews!
Hi telegraph. I'm finishing up my testing on the three main pnsb products on the market. I will probably post my results next week. Did you ever get a biomic report on the Brightwell purple m product? Honestly, my preliminary results are not very impressive with the products so I was wondering what the makeup of this solution is
I do have the report, and I want to share the data, but I think it best for my family, for now, that I not share. More to follow.
I think I understand. That's okay you don't really need to share anything if there is concern for liability or backlash. In fact your concern probably answers the question for me. Also, my results are pretty clear that the product is likely little different from microbacter 7.
The Purple and MB7 I tested are not similar, and I like your paper towel test. Great idea!
Did they dilute the special blend recently? I just resupplied mine and it's noticeably less "darker" looking.
I use the special blend specifically to crowed out dinos. I use a sulfur reactor so my nitrates stay pretty low. Phosphate I can barely keep it detectable.
I started with dry rock and could never get my nitrates under control and I tried everything you can imagine, turf scrubber (still in use I'm pretty sure it's eating my phosphates), carbon dosing (vinegar,nopox eliminp and Bio pellets), refugium and massive water changes. When I started the sulfur reactor my nitrates were over 75 on Hanna within about a month they were coming down quickly and now they are currently at 4.6. They will drop your Alk and raise calcium so I had to adjust my dosing but other than that it's the easiest and best way I've found to manage nitrates.That's great! I've never seen a problem with nitrates in my aquarium, even when it got higher above 20 PPM. So never thought to try a sulfur denitrifier, but it's good to know it works well.
Everyone's tanks are different but in this current 400 gallon reef with 12 fish (about 40 inches total of fish) my struggle has always been phosphates. I tested the Special Blend and it does work to improve phosphates versus just a standard bottle of beneficial heterotrophic bacteria like mb7 or waste away
Something changed. The dosing instructions and contents differ from those of another bottle I sampled.
It doesn't smell the same either.
