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That’s why I didn’t recommend vibrant. I recommended using something like microbacter 7, But I said I’ve only heard this helps, as when I had an issue I used vibrant. I agree, vibrant is not for beginners. I’ve heard too many conflicting stories on the use of vibrant to be recommending it and maybe I should have added that to my post. I just didn’t want to recommend Microbacter without giving the information that I have not personally used it for algae control, so the OP should do some research before trying it because if it does work like vibrant (again, I’m not sure), you’d need to watch out for a nutrient spike, hence the increase water chance advice.
I just want to clarify whether you have heard the story on vibrant being a simple algaecide (same as ALgaefix) and not bacteria at all? Not sure that impacts your comments, but you seem to be associating it with dosing bacteria, which it is not.