Does This Stuff Really Work? Part 1

[@MoreChannelNoise]

Wow, so the shrimp gave the guppy the kiss of life, dam, wish you had caught that on camera. Next time eh

[@garageaquatics2023]

It really did the trick for that cyanobacteria! And hopefully it won't come back. Particularly in the Betta tank! ~Ron

[@pelhamsaquatics]

Oooh blue green algae!😮i bet it will disappear! I i love that farming technique with terra cotta pots! Ive never used those products before peroxide and the green clean. The bleach should kill it! 😂😂😂 whos annette a net lol loved that!

[@garageaquatics2023]

@@pelhamsaquatics I’ve got a follow up. Spoiler alert! Turns out it looks like that stuff did the trick. Bleach works on it as well. Just not in with the critters. I still love cartoons and Phineas and Ferb are among my favorites.

[@GCaquatics]

hahahah very nice disney straw :p

[@garageaquatics2023]

@@GCaquatics 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@GCaquatics]

haha i find it hard to waste water too, i always put my tank water on our fruit trees, my wife's flowers or the grass.

[@garageaquatics2023]

@@GCaquatics absolutely! Our house and patio plants have never looked so good!

[@markfranklin8831]

I hope this works. I'll be here for part 2. Thanks for sharing

[@garageaquatics2023]

Thank, Mark. It's on its way. 🙂

[@GCaquatics]

I hope it does work to get rid of that, I thankfully have not have many different types of algae myself. Hope i can still avoid them.

[@garageaquatics2023]

@@GCaquatics blue-green algae is a GIANT pain in the . . . well you know😁

[@GCaquatics]

hope that stuff works for you brother.

[@garageaquatics2023]

@@GCaquatics I’ve got part 2 coming up.

[@Merb34st]

Tanks for sharing. I used the Boyd's chemi-clean and it worked. Surfactant IIRC. Didn't kill anything I could see, but like most chemicals it's probably not good for you or fish. Add lots of aeration iirc.

[@garageaquatics2023]

Tanks, Merb! Someone else mentioned chemi-clean. I'm not sure what's in the one I used, but it does say no erythromycin or algicide. Not cure what the active ingredient. I do have air and an HOB in the betta tank and just an air stone in the farm tank.

[@MerbeastsFishRoom-s7e]

@@garageaquatics2023 Chemiclean is IIRC the same as the Ultra-Life, just more concentrated. They both use erythromycin cetyl sulfate, and both advertise as not containing algaecides or "erythromycin succinate". I believe the only difference is that the Boyds is more concentrated in the powder form, so Boyds uses .15cc per 10 gallons (.45cc per 30 gallons) and Ultralife uses .625cc per 15 gallons (or 1.25cc per 30 gallons.) Other than that, same-same.

[@garageaquatics2023]

@@MerbeastsFishRoom-s7e interesting. It sucks when you can’t count on the labels. In fact, I guess there’d be some laws broken mislabeling a pesticide/medication. I wonder if there are MSDS available for these somewhere?

[@garageaquatics2023]

@@MerbeastsFishRoom-s7e I just found a 'safety sheet' for Ultra Life and they ain't talkin'! It's all propriatairy!, and their wedside shows no erythromycin or algecide. How do they do it? 🙂

[@TarasTankFriends]

I use chemi-clean which is just a modified form of erithromycin to get rid of cyano. I've seen ultra life for sale, I thought it was basically the same thing but it sounds like it's very different. Interesting that you don't have to remove carbon. I'll be really interested to see what it does! 👍👍

[@garageaquatics2023]

@@TarasTankFriends yeah. No erythromycin or algicides in this. I’ll get part 2 up in the next day or two.

[@GCaquatics]

do you think some of the chemicals are what cause the algae to bloom?

[@garageaquatics2023]

@@GCaquatics maybe. I really don’t know. Especially with that Cyanobacteria.

[@josepolanco1228]

Had not seen cyano before. Ron where did you get the jungle val you showed on a previous video ? Thanks for sharing this

[@garageaquatics2023]

@@josepolanco1228 you’re lucky. Cyanobacteria is awful. I got the Val on Amazon. I thought I pasted in a link last time you asked. I’ll go find it and past it in again.

[@josepolanco1228]

@@garageaquatics2023 did not see or did not take me there. Will look again

[@garageaquatics2023]

@@josepolanco1228 I just replied in that thread. It’s in the video about the jungle Val.

[@garageaquatics2023]

@@josepolanco1228 Here it is: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NANWKOD/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Let me know if this works.