DannyBradley;84078 wrote: The reason you have a drop in O2 is explained in my last post. It combines organic matter with O2. You learn about a process in elementary science where matter is chemically combined with oxygen. The two combine, and release byproducts. It's called oxidization,
Not to sound critical, but oxidation has nothing to do with lack/utilization of oxygen, oxygen is just one of the common reductants, and moreover it will have to come from the organic matter to be effective not from the water, which is counter productive, if you want high oxidants, you might as well use KMnO4 or ozone, and oxidants don't differentiate between bad organic matter and good(coral/fish and other bacteria).... in other words if you target on oxidizing the organic matter you are oxidizing everything else in the tank including the cyano, good bacteria, fish corals.... so I doubt chemi-clean is an oxidizing agent.......
I have no idea what is in this product, but It does work, That being said, cameron has a very valid point, cyano is a bacteria, so anything that kills it (I doubt checmi clean does it either, you could use furan-2 for that since it is a bacteria) or starves it (which is more likely) should have some effect on other bacteria as well... unless there is one specific targeting method that is done by chemi-clean....
I tested it ones in the zeo system, the result was, the cyano went away but I had a outbreak of brown slime algae within a few days, usually a sign of excess carbon source dosage, even though I wasn't, so the only explanation is I lost the good bacterial colony and have offset my bacteria population... and the SPS didn't like the treatment very much either....
My personal suggestion would be to siphon out the cyano every night and replace the removed water...... It maybe a long drawn out process, but a good one.... you can bring the population to balance and improve the health of your system at the same time.... Blue legged hermits do clean out the cyano...
