Chemi-clean feedback

[gregzz4]

I realize there has been much ado lately, and in the past, concerning this product ...
I've found previous posts and see it has been used in the past by many of our members, but there hasn't been any 'lasting effects' posts added to the threads

I'm looking for feedback from those who have used it in the past ( not recently if it was your first time )

I'd like to hear about your long-term effects concerning things such as; dino outbreaks, hair algae, cyano returns ... whatever you'd like to tell us about

Not looking to have this become a discussion about husbandry or other chemical type product uses, just feedback about Chemi-clean

Thanks for any input

[SoloSK71]

Used it 10 months ago, nothing came back until I introduced a frag what had some green algae ... so far under control w/ clean up crew

Skimmer went into over production mode for a good 5 days after, but water changes caught that eventually

Charles

[asylumdown]

I've used it in my tank twice now. The first time was probably in the spring or summer and I don't think I used enough of it or for long enough and the cyano came back within a week, but other than that and a skimmer that went crazy for days, there were no other effects.

This most recent time, according to date stamps on posts here, was just about exactly a month ago. This time after the 20% water change at the 48 hour mark, I did a second dose to try and make sure I'd killed it all. Strangely, even though I know it's not supposed to work on them, the dusting of dinos that have waxed and waned on my sand bed for the better part of a year (and I've confirmed their identity under a microscope) utterly vanished. I only let the second treatment go for 24 hours because my elegance coral and one of my frogspawns were starting to look a little worse for wear, so I did the 20% water change, dropped a bag of carbon in my filter sock, and skimmed wet until the skimmer went back to normal (about 3 days). When I did that last water change I tested my phosphate levels and they had jumped from 0.00 on a hanna checker to 0.05.

After that I started an aggressive dosing campaign of MB7 (the tank runs biopellets) and changed the GFO every few days for a couple of weeks.

January 15th and there isn't a trace of the cyano. All corals are doing just fine, though I think I might have driven the nutrients too low.

I know some people say they've nuked their tanks with this stuff, but I've never seen so much as a reaction from anything, other than the widespread death of cyano bacteria.

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by asylumdown

I know some people say they've nuked their tanks with this stuff

From what I can find on the web, I would attribute this to either over-dosing due to a lack of true system volume knowledge, or a lack of oxygenation

[brotherd]

No damage at all after second outbreak and treatment but I confess I did not use it full strength. I still have 2 small patches in the display and a 5cm area on the front panel of the refugium.

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by brotherd

No damage at all after second outbreak and treatment but I confess I did not use it full strength. I still have 2 small patches in the display and a 5cm area on the front panel of the refugium.

So you dosed it 2 different times ?
When was that ?

[Aquattro]

Used it once a while back, full dose, left it in for a week. No issues. Skimmer wasn't happy for while tho

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

No issues

As in, nothing has come back, no Dinos or other outbreaks etc ?

[Evilweevil]

Used it once and lost my clam and some inverts I had the skimmer running and overflowing into the sump looking back I would have to agree with gregzz I may have overdosed only by a little though but it sure got rid of all the cyano fo sho!!!

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

As in, nothing has come back, no Dinos or other outbreaks etc ?

Nope. I wouldn't hesitate to use it again, if I ever needed to.