I tried it on the staghorn.
I let it bubble for about 20 min first, then turned the flow back on.
I have rare plecos, rummy's and various other soft water fish and used 1 table spoon in 100 gallons of water.
You could see the product targeting the local area and sticking to the algae directly.
Nice.
However, I'm not sure how well it will work till later.
How long after treatment should we wait?
1-2-3 days?
It works very fast in lakes/ponds.
Vaughn, if you drop it off, I'll take it, a client with a pond uses it.
I'm still testing it, the plants out back had no damage(Java fern).
I'll give the product another try on the staghorn.
I think it's better for green algae it would seem.
Amazing what it does for attached algae in ponds.
Bottom line however, does it work and have little side effects, no impacts on the non target organism, plants and critters.
I can vouch for the non targets, but not as of yet for the above about algae.
Still, it might affect green algae more than the reds.
So there's little conclusions to made just yet.
Still, we really do not want a sledgehammer to kill algae, we want a mild easy to use product that kills the algae a bit and does no harm to the plants.
But, the other issue, something I've long argued for going back to the APD days, good conditions for the plants addresses the root cause of algae. Still, folks will still play around with various items, it was only a matter of time before someone decided to do this one as well.
Excel is a pretty good temp solution for a number of algae, and perhaps this one might offer a better solution vs H2O2 and Excel, bleaching plants etc, as well as being very economical.
It does not appear to harm plants or fish, so it's worth a test to see if it might work.
Then we
know rather than being the fearful myth driven emotional bunch so many(us as well many times- nobody is above that) appear to be.
Then come to some understanding about it before someone runs around claiming "a miracle". For ponds, it very well might be a miracle
We have far more control over our environment however than they do.
So that is where most of our energy ought to be spent.
Regards,
Tom Barr[/QUOTE]