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• Combats aquarium algae and works to prevent its return
• Effective against green water, blue-green algae, diatoms, and hair algae
• Can be safely used in planted aquariums
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 1.25 inches | | Product Width:
| 2.25 inches | | Product Height:
| 4.75 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.21 pounds | | Package Length:
| 6.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 2.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 11 reviews |
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7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Opaque to crystal-clear in a couple of hours.May 16, 2010
By Andy
Before this I tried everything they recommend. No matter what I tried - frequent to daily water changes, low-to-no light, remove plants, less food - nothing worked. From the front of the 10 gallon tank it was impossible to see the plants and ceramics a third of the way back. I haven't been able to find the algae eater in weeks.
As a last resort, I bought this. The directions indicate 1ml for every 12 gallons. By that reckoning, this is well more than hundred doses for a 10 gallon tank. I don't have anything that can measure 1ml, so I gave it one good squirt and walked away.
It's probably worth noting that the directions also say to take your activated-charcoal filter out. Presumably that's because it will neutralize the stuff. Since I couldn't measure properly and didn't want to poison my fish, I didn't take mine out.
It's crystal-clear in there now. I mean GORGEOUS.
Still no sign of the algae eater... odd.
Boy, was I surprised to read the horror stories in the other reviews. So far, my fish look happy and my plants haven't died. If that changes, I'll come back and say so. Till then, I've got to say it's amazing.
EDIT: Just read one of the other reviews a little more carefully. She said she used three capfuls in her tank.
This bottle is intended to treat 1,200 gallons. Three capfuls is roughly a third of the bottle. Unless her tank is larger than 400 gallons, it's no wonder the fish are dying.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Results?Apr 23, 2011
By Fishmonger
I bought this product many months ago for my 46 gallon tank, where I have an increasing problem with hair algae. I hesitated to use it, partly because of all of the warnings against using chemicals found in all the sites that have to do with aquarium care. But even after doing things such as changing to under gravel fertilizers, upping the frequency of my water changes and adding a carbon dioxide injector to my planted tank, the situation has only gotten worse. So before I tried this treatment, I looked for all of the reviews I could find on the web. As you know, if you're reading this, there aren't many. The ones that were overly glowing I almost immediately dismissed, since I couldn't be sure if they weren't put there by the manufacturer. The overly negative ones, claiming 98% kill of fish, left me afraid to try the stuff. Anyway, last night, I bit the bullet and dosed my tank according to manufacturer's directions.
This morning, about 15 hours after I dosed the tank, all of my fish are alive and well. My plants, on which I have spent a considerable sum of money, appear unchanged. Unfortunately, so does the hair algae! In going back over the reviews, I noticed that those who wrote glowing reviews had green water problems, they weren't dealing with hair algae. Unlike them, I did not awake this morning to find my tank magically rid of hair algae. Nor did I find a plethora of dead snails, which I would have found very welcome.
Will I try this product again? It's a question at the moment. While it doesn't seem to do any harm, I can't be sure if it actually does any good. At least, not when one is dealing with a problem with hair algae. Does it need more time? Do I need to repeat the application? These are questions to which I have no answer at the moment. However, given the scarcity of reviews on this product, I thought I should put my own two cents in.
By the way, for those who don't have the ability to measure milliliters, the directions also tell you that you can use one drop per gallon. I counted drops into a measuring device that I have that gives me milliliters, and the drop system is accurate.
The price is right and it really works!May 24, 2012
By Kimberly J. Karas
"a New England mom"
Review title really tells you everything you need to know. I have been lucky in my tank maintaining years not to have had much experience with algae. Once a big green bloom hit me, I needed something inexpensive and powerful to help me get rid of the stuff that scrubbing didn't tackle. This product requires only one drop per gallon and with two treatments my problem was eliminated. The treatment loosened up the stuff I wasn't getting clean with a brush alone. Wait a day and brush afterwards and voila, clean tank! As stated in directions, be sure to remove tank filter for six to eight hours after treatment. I did not return filter media until I got the whole problem taken care of.
works fine. Just read the labelApr 21, 2012
By Christian Lenoir
So many negative reviews left me puzzled, but I have other Tetra products which have always worked out great for me, so I gave it a try. First thing I notices out of the box is that this will treat 1200 gallons. Yes.. 1200 GALLONS!. ....so just do the math. I have a 3-gallon acrylic tank, so for my case, the dose equated to just a few drops. I had to measure them with a disposable plastic syringe (highly recommendable). I also made sure I cleaned the tank and added this product to the NEW water (together with the TETRA Aquasafe water conditioner), as I wouldn't expect to kill all the existing algae I had grown to that point. Once applied as directed, I can say the results were fabulous. It has now been over a week without any trace of algae whatsoever. Previously, the tank wouldn't go 3 or 4 days without starting to show big hair algae and other green slime just about everywhere. IU have a few natural plants, and although I did some scrubbing when cleaning the tank, I would have expected algae to have grown quickly again if I hadn't used this product (after all, any traces left on rocks, artificial vegetation, or even in the roots of the existing real-plants would have left the "seed" for new algae to grow). Toxicity is all bout the dose: you would never thing of ingesting a whole jar of table salt. Similarly, you don't want to overdo it with this product: just use the right amount for the gallons of water you have. Treat it once and just apply to the volume of new water whenever you replace old water.
 Do not use!!!!Apr 06, 2012
By Dayne
I added 10 drops to my 46 gallon tank and within hours all my fish started to die. By the next morning 12 of 15 cichlids had died.
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