Microbe-Lift Gravel and Substrate Cleaner for Home Aquariums

As others may be, I'm a skeptic and lightly read into what others post (unless there seems to be a central theme). However, for this product, I have to say that, 1) the bottle warns folks about the brown color that others are complaining about in their reviews, and 2) I'm not sure what happened to the poor guy with brown coffee-colored water (review below), but mine cleared up FAST.

What I did was to add this, and follow directions; that means: correct dosage maybe even a little on the conservative side and then changed my filters after 8 (maybe 12?) hours later. Nothing to it, really.

My tank has had a constant algal bloom battle, sometimes worse than other times, and seemed to remain cloudy, even when the blooms had been abated. The water clarifiers and (alleged) algae killers I've used never worked, no matter how expensive or reputable the brand, but somehow this product did it all; took care of the green water *and* cloudiness. I love it, and highly recommend this. I currently have five tanks; one 38-gallon with plants, fish & invertebrates, a 1.5G tank w/ a betta, two Fluval Ebi Nanos (~8G), and one Fluval Chi (5G) that has an albino catfish & some tiger barbs. I've used this product in the betta, barbs, and 38-gallon tank, and the water has always cleared up in color, clarity, and quality (did water tests once cleared to see what the parameters might be).

I tried other products, but nothing was able to remove the sludge in my 3 tanks, but all I needed was one dose of Microbe-Lift and the sludge was almost gone. Another dose two weeks later and my tanks were completely clear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Turns the water brown for a few days but then returns to crystal clear. I used on a 50 gallon fish tank. We use it once a month.

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This may be a very good product but I've only used it once because it turned the water in my tank brown for days. I may try it again when I know I'm not having guests (yes, it looked that bad) because I like the premise an easy and ecological way to clean the tank of that yucky stuff on the bottom.

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I bought this hoping it would do what it suggests, but it turned out far worse than I imagined. The bottle says it will "discolor your water for 48 96 hours" but here it is a week and a half later, and it is getting worse. It is in a 55 gallon tank with live plants that I have had up since 1994. I have never worried so much about the ecology of my tank as I have since I added this product. The tank went rust brown as soon as I added the product, and I was expecting that. But instead of fading in the 48 96 hours it has become worse each day, and now I can not even see fish from one end of the tank to the other. It is a dark coffee brown, and as much as I worry about unbalancing my tank I'm going to start doing water changes out of schedule until I can get the water at least somewhat clearer. At least enough to see the fish anyway. Luckily I only used half of the recommended dose to test things out. If I had put in the recommended amount I can't imagine the tar that the poor little fish would be swimming in now. Okay, now off to start hauling water...