New tool in the help to fight Cyano - Microbacter CLEAN

[kahjun896]

Do i need to continue dosing MB7 and Reef Biofuel when i am dosing MB Clean daily? am trying to fight mild dino patches..

 

[ChrisOFL]

Do i need to continue dosing MB7 and Reef Biofuel when i am dosing MB Clean daily? am trying to fight mild dino patches..

I have a thread here discussing my approach at permanently eliminating dinos using MB Clean and MB7. If you want to try it and are successful or not please comment in the thread.

 

[AvoidTheNoid]

How about vibrant? Does anyone have enough experience to compare?
Thanks in advance.

I used Vibrant and it worked very well on hair algae and diatoms but it killed a chalice and a birds nest in a few days. I will never use that poison again

 

[Drewbacca]

Just thought I would add this info to the thread for anybody who stumbles upon it.
I talked to a specialist at brightwell and he told me to make sure and treat with/dose microbacter Clean FIRST and then use microbacter7 After.. because the bacteria in mb7 are stronger/more dominant and will negate/outcompete/kill alot of the mb Clean bacteria. Let Clean do its work then add mb7 for a better diverse tank norm of bacteria. Thought it was good info in general, but especially for those wanting to use both.
Right while ending the call.. He said.. theres also Razor ...which he said was basically an algaenist? Or algaenine? But just cant market it that way or something like that. It is marketed and defined as a surface cleaning bacteria (as in ..glass cleaning razor) like waste away..although I'm sure they would take offense to that.. as by his comment when discussing seeding dry sand yourself instead of using live sand. He said "thats definitely the way to go.. if you only knew the junk bacteria they put in it... which I say ..because I DO know. " lol.
Anyway..Anyone have experience with razor & in comparison to clean?

 

[hsn izd]

hi guys i am using micro bacteria clean for a year it helped a lot with hair algae but i dose carbon every day
and it doesn't help with my cyano
its a very good product for sure but i always have cyano on my sand
i know its mostly because of carbon dosing

 

[Big E]

Just thought I would add this info to the thread for anybody who stumbles upon it.
I talked to a specialist at brightwell and he told me to make sure and treat with/dose microbacter Clean FIRST and then use microbacter7 After.. because the bacteria in mb7 are stronger/more dominant and will negate/outcompete/kill alot of the mb Clean bacteria. Let Clean do its work then add mb7 for a better diverse tank norm of bacteria. Thought it was good info in general, but especially for those wanting to use both.
Right while ending the call.. He said.. theres also Razor ...which he said was basically an algaenist? Or algaenine? But just cant market it that way or something like that. Anyone have experience with it?

I was fighting between dynos and cyano in my frag system. I'd kill dynos with UV and then cyano would show up. So I tried MBclean. I followed the directions turning off skimmer 4 hours and dosing once a week.
It took about 2 months and no cyano and the algae is much slower to grow. I think most people quit too soon and expect fast results. You have to give products like this at least 2-3 months.

I ran out of MB clean and am now using MB7 cause I use it on my display. My display is spotless.........algae is there but the cleanup crew has no problem keeping it at bay.

I was prompted to try clean when I saw a fellow reefers tank that was spotless and I asked what she was doing. She told me MBclean is dosed with a skimmer & that's it. I imagine you could just continue to use clean long term like her and never go to MB7.

Here's my display with MB7(with vinegar) You can see comparison from 2 months back to now. Snails and my tang had already kept algae down to a film in the left pic...............that was a few months after I started MB7. On the right is today 2 more months later.

Razor is an algaecide similar to Algaefix and Vibrant (has carbon source added)

 

[PopBot16]

Greeting fellow reefers, I wanted to share my experience with a product I recently purchased.

Reefer 250 started from dry rock and sand approx. 5 months ago. Seeded the tank with Fritz Turbo and have continued doing Microbacter 7 since startup. The cycle went well but shortly after the cycle I started getting some Cyano that quickly started taking over the tank. I added another Gyre and started daily siphoning / manual removal. I knew I was not making much headway as every evening I was removing about the same amount of Cyano. I began looking for some other additives to try and diversify my bacteria population since I did not want to go the Chemiclean route.

I found Microbacter Clean online and figured it was worth a try. I started out with a 10ML dose on day one and have been dosing 2ML daily for the past 14 days. Happy to report that my cyano has nearly faded completely away and now only have 2 small patches left that I predict will be gone by the end of this week.

Normally I would think this may have just been a coincidence and my tanks' natural cycle completing is what knocked out the Cyano but I do not think that is the case. I was cleaning the Cyano every day and was very tuned into the amount I was removing. As stated above I was removing the same amount or more every day so I knew my problem was not getting any better. Until I began doing Microbacter Clean. Not only did I notice a reduction in the amount of Cyano I was removing just two days after beginning to dose I also noticed the color of the Cyano beginning fade from deep purple to a lighter pink. Hopefully other find this info useful and have some success fighting back the Cyano!!

Did you shut the skimmer off for 4 hours after each dose of MB Clean, as per the instructions? Also, if you had socks or any other kind of mechanical filtration, did you remove it?

 

[jenniferreichardt]

So…for serious outbreak of cyano, and to keep it away, I should dose FIRST with MB clean (I’m guessing until the bottles gone) and THEN with MB7 (for the life of the tank?).
I also have a new tank cycling with old live rock. Should I start dosing MB7 after the cycle is done or something else?

 

[rsoethe]

Bacterclean has been super helpful in slowing film algae as well. Less cleaning the glass for the win!