I used the recommended dose for a bubble out break. My corals do not seem very happy. Polyp extension is gone and corals browning up. Skipped a week added one more time with water change
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Why would you need to dose vibrant in a QT tank? If you're doing it properly, it would have been pristine just before you added the butterflies.Wow, this sucks... so sorry to hear that and nothing more frustrating then losing expensive corals! I will say that I actually gave this vibrant stuff, but luckly in a QT tank and fish only. It was the craziest thing as it turned the water so cloudy and think it actually wiped out beneficial bacteria. I was monitoring the nitrite and ammonia as I had fish in the QT and 2 days after I lost 3 of 5 Pyramid butterflies! I did a few water changes and left with 2 of the fish seems to be doing ok. This is a lesson learned and glad I did not put this crap in my display tank.
I tried the recommended dose of Vibrant and had 3 expensive SPS frags die with in 2 days of using it. I didn't change any of my other parameters, same kalk, salt in water changes and lighting. There was a very direct response in a negative way, it is not worth the risk to me.
Just figured I’d chime in.
My parameters for a 90gal SPS dominate tank are as follows:
PO4- .02 ppm
NO3- 5-10ppm
Alk- 8.1 dKh
Calc- 440
Mg- 1250
These params hardly ever fluctuate. My ALK fluctuates maybe .1-.2dKh a day.
Daily I dose flatworm stop x and acropower.
I dosed vibrant 2 days ago. Because although my PO4 is low I have some green algae growing thicker than I like on some parts of the rock and my glass has been getting green faster since I cut the fuge light down some.
As of 24 hours ago my tyree pink lemonade and my Strawberry shortcake showed signs of STN. It seemed to have slowed some now but coming home this evening I noticed that my Aussie toxic slimer and my MC Medusa are severely stressed and looking terrible.
My acans are puffy like they usually are.
At first I thought it may have been from a temp spike as my temp usually runs 79-80 and it reach about 82 Wednesday. However, after reading and asking several of my local reefers I do not think that is an issue. Therefore Vibrant is the only other thing that’s changed and the one most of us are leaning towards.
No cleaning around the house, no addition of coral not even a water change since last Sunday.
Here are some photos.
As you can see in the photo I took of my SSC the Aussie slimer was in good condition and now it is not.
I just fragged off a piece of Aussie slimer, in hopes that I can save one piece of it. Within the last hour or two it has totally transitioned into RTN.
Latest picture.
The problem with vibrant is it will not affect every tank the same. I honestly don't see how some can't accept that vibrant is the cause or (could be). I was a very early adopter of vibrant before it was even mentioned on R2R and had success with it in one tank while it wreaked havoc in another. It is very powerful and can affect each tank differently whether it be nutrient related, ect. Always dosed half the recommended amounts and corals suffered in a 75 gallon thriving reef tank.