Boyds chemi-clean?

waverz · #1 01/27/2006, 01:25 PM

Anyone have any luck using this stuff to get rid of red cynao? I just tried my first dose, and im really hoping it works.

SeanT · #2 01/27/2006, 01:29 PM

I have heard of several reefers, even a local one here in my club, that have lost most of their livestock using it.

I would not.

tibbs2 · #3 01/27/2006, 01:30 PM

It worked for me. But it will come back after awhile if nutrients aren't reduced. I usually use a little under the reccommended dose and don't forget to do the water changes that the instructions say to do.
No damage to any livestock and I have everything from fish, to sponges, to urchins in my tank.

waverz · #4 01/27/2006, 01:33 PM

My problem was overfeeding, i was feeding waay way to heavy when i first got the tank going. I have cut back on feeding to a cpl times a week and have been doing water changes weekly.
Just checked my water parameters and all are great.

SeanT, that makes me nervous, i wonder if they didt have proper aeration. It says in bold letters that this is very important.

SeanT · #5 01/27/2006, 01:44 PM

Yeah it would make me nervous too.
Here is the post from one of my club members:

Quote:

I forgot!!!! I hae a 125 AGA with a 55 gal sump that is filled with about 35 gal. of water. I want to do a water change but I just want to know how much would be to much. I had cyano outbreak and i treated my tank with cemi-clean and my whole tank went south with about 65% of coral death, the cyano still there and i dont want to add chemi-clean again so i want to know if doing water change will help. im running carbon and i added 4 MJ1200s. What else?

I have used it in the past with great results and i used the same amount I have always used. I used 7 spoons (the little spoon that comes with it) i dosed 1/2 in the morning and 1/2 in the afternoon, the next morning I woke up to a white tank with all SPS bleached, all my softies, zoos and LPS closed and on the brink of diying, so I did a 40 gal water change and the cyano is still there.

waverz · #6 01/27/2006, 01:51 PM

Yeah thats scary....i sure will be ****ed if i lose everything. I wasnt gonna use it all, but the red cyano is driving me crazy and im tired of sucking it out everyday. I guess only time will tell....

Paintbug · #7 01/27/2006, 01:59 PM

i have used chemi-clean myself. i didnt even loose a snail. i have read the post SeanT quoted from, and i dont know what that guy did. make sure your skimmer is off for 48hrs like the instructions say. then do a water change once the 48hrs is up. it works but like mentioned its a temp. fix. if you dont have the nitrates, and phosphates down it will come right back.

waverz · #8 01/27/2006, 03:55 PM

Paintbug, glad to hear, thanks for putting my mind at ease.