Has anyone tried this custom coral snow mix?

[nightmarepl]

Extreme Water Clarity and Cyano Eradication, Made Easy!

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Found this guys info online and was told by a few friends it’s legit but sounds alittle scary has anyone tried something like this?

 

[Rueric]

Yes tried and works

 

[diana a]

+1

 

[Dave -BHW]

Yes….no issues.

 

[nightmarepl]

Awesome I’ll definitely order and give it a go

 

[MadReefer]

Is this better than carbon dosing?
Was going to start Vodka dosing tomorrow.

 

[ericrodriguez]

Is this better than carbon dosing?
Was going to start Vodka dosing tomorrow.

Following

 

[nightmarepl]

No idea but ima find out next week haha can’t look at my tank anymore god do i hate cyano

 

[MadReefer]

No idea but ima find out next week haha can’t look at my tank anymore god do i hate cyano

Same here. I tried everything.

 

[MadReefer]

Next question for the chemists.
If using calcium carbonate will it increase calcium?

 

[The Gooch]

Is this better than carbon dosing?
Was going to start Vodka dosing tomorrow.

It's totally different. Vodka will fuel bacteria in your reef. Great if your tank is stable + mature with no cyano, with elevated nutrients to fuel the bacterial growth. If you have cyano present, vodka will likely make it worse.If your tank is already low nutrient vodka will make things worse.
The snow is more of a flocculant which binds waterborne particles, aiding in clarity, possibly causing more to be skimmed out (I was never able to tell). Cyano seem to proliferate for many reasons. Immature biome, bottomed out nitrates + phosphates, and lack of flow over sand bed are the most common that I've seen and experienced. It doesn't raise your calcium levels because the carbonate precipitates out of solution and settles on surfaces (bound with dissolved organic). I believe calcium chloride is the form that raises your calcium levels.

 

[nightmarepl]

It's totally different. Vodka will fuel bacteria in your reef. Great if your tank is stable + mature with no cyano, with elevated nutrients to fuel the bacterial growth. If you have cyano present, vodka will likely make it worse.If your tank is already low nutrient vodka will make things worse.
The snow is more of a flocculant which binds waterborne particles, aiding in clarity, possibly causing more to be skimmed out (I was never able to tell). Cyano seem to proliferate for many reasons. Immature biome, bottomed out nitrates + phosphates, and lack of flow over sand bed are the most common that I've seen and experienced. It doesn't raise your calcium levels because the carbonate precipitates out of solution and settles on surfaces (bound with dissolved organic). I believe calcium chloride is the form that raises your calcium levels.

So would you try this in my situation haha

 

[The Gooch]

So would you try this in my situation haha

The coral snow won't make the cyano worse. How old is your tank? was there any establish or live rock/sand added? What are your nitrate + phosphate levels currently?

 

[nightmarepl]

Tanks around 3 months 75lb of live rock and 90lbs of dry new rock plus 50 lbs of dry sand
Nitrates almost 0-5
Phosphate 0.07

 

[The Gooch]

Tanks around 3 months 75lb of live rock and 90lbs of dry new rock plus 50 lbs of dry sand
Nitrates almost 0-5
Phosphate 0.07

3 months is prime time for cyano, even with live rock. Keep the nitrates higher and you should see the cyano clear faster. 10-15ppm. Getting below 5 in a new tank seems to make it worse. I used get cyano all the time in tanks after the first couple of months running lower nutrient. My last 2 tanks were started with live rock, not letting nitrate or phosphate drop, and I never saw a drop of cyano . If you’re feeling the itch to dose bacteria, microbe-lift special blend used to clear it up back in the day. Warning, smells like a sewer

 

[nightmarepl]

3 months is prime time for cyano, even with live rock. Keep the nitrates higher and you should see the cyano clear faster. 10-15ppm. Getting below 5 in a new tank seems to make it worse. I used get cyano all the time in tanks after the first couple of months running lower nutrient. My last 2 tanks were started with live rock, not letting nitrate or phosphate drop, and I never saw a drop of cyano . If you’re feeling the itch to dose bacteria, microbe-lift special blend used to clear it up back in the day. Warning, smells like a sewer

Hmm sounds like a good plan to test out would

 

[MadReefer]

My tank is several years old and as of last week Nitrate is 3 and Phosphate 0.15.
I don't consider these numbers high; if I am wrong chime in.

Not sure if I should try this or dose Vodka.

 

[nightmarepl]

My tank is several years old and as of last week Nitrate is 3 and Phosphate 0.15.
I don't consider these numbers high; if I am wrong chime in.

Not sure if I should try this or dose Vodka.

Well i just did a treatment of chemclean then ima try this custom snow my brothers a chemist ima have him make it all haha

 

[MadReefer]

I did chemiclean several times and did not help.

 

[nightmarepl]

Well i just did chemiclean yesterday and did nothing
Tested water phosphate 0.05
Nitrate 0-2
No ideas feel like it got worse guess the next step is to do water change and maybe try this coral snow + microbact7 and blast it