Not necessarily. It makes the corals around it angry, but I've used it right near base of a coral, and the nearby coral was fine after initial irritation.
Excellent! Then I may have to try it.Not necessarily. It makes the corals around it angry, but I've used it right near base of a coral, and the nearby coral was fine after initial irritation.
Thank you for this info. Any specific formula/grams on kalk + lye for the mix?
I should probably measure it, instead of eyeballing it tbh. I just dissolve about 1/2 teaspoon of sodium hydroxide granules (caustic soda pearl ) into a small tumbler of water (this gets hot), then use that to make a slurry with a couple of heaped tablespoons of calcium hydroxide powder (and I discard whatever caustic soda solution I don’t use). If you make it too potent or with too low viscosity, excessive magnesium hydroxide is formed when it goes into the saltwater. High viscosity is good (as long as you can get it through a syringe). Altering the viscosity really is just a case of adding more powder or water, it appears the exact amount of sodium hydroxide may have little relevance apart from there being “enough”. You lot have revived my interest in this potention money making method so now I’m playing around with a dry mix of the pearl and calcium hydroxide, so “just add water” lol. I could really do with becoming a millionaire this year, I failed miserably last year (by about a million actually).
Cool, thanks for the recap
should kill it pretty thoroughly.
Heh. API, Fritz, Tetra, and probably a few other companies all sell a clearly labeled cheaper version of the same algaecide. If you liked Vibrant, then API Algaefix (etc.) will give you the same results.
I pipe mine on, like I’m making icing starshapes on a cake. I can get the thicker solution to stick to near vertical surfaces ((at least for a while) the syringe tip needs to be nearly touching the target area to adhere). Must admit,I’ve never considered that a small calcium increase would ever be a problem. 2 or 3 mls in a 60 gallon appears to have little impact on pH or Alkalinity when left to sit for 1.5 hrs.
You could attack at least small patches at a time if this is for a 40gallon. This isn’t stuff that you can apply everywhere, all in one go, as you probably know. Let us know what you decide, pics would be good.
Made up a dry mix batch today and it’s 10% caustic soda pearl, ie 5 grams pearl, 50grms calcium hydroxide, add water to required viscosity. Even sticks to vertical glass if there’s a little algae on it for it to bind to.
Very handy. I'll recreate your recipe and see if I like your thick extreme better than the thin extreme I've been using.
Stuff like this thoroughly kills a small section of rock, so it's fair game for whatever to colonize. In my tank the coralline nearby ended up colonizing the patches I did.
Coralline loves it, never seen a Dino out break, even in using the old school kalk paste technique.
I still have most of a bottle of vibrant lying around; I certainly wouldn't purchase a new bottle of it. Thanks for the info!
Used F-Aiptasia in a small colony a few days ago. Happy to sacrifice a few, to save the many!
The stuff that @Garf and I are talking about is as accurate as your pipette / syringe. So you can get the bad stuff and not necessarily harm the nearby corals. They will be ticked off for a little while.
