Review on Ultralife Blue Green Slime Stain Eliminator by Donia Carey

Why isn't this all over the shelves in pet shops? Why isn't this the first thing people mention on fish forums to combat BGA (blue-green algae, aka cyanobacteria)? I went nuts trying to fight this thing in my planted 29 gallon tank. I accidentally let my nitrates get too low and had a MASSIVE eruption. I followed all the advice I could find to get rid of this junk - light adjustment, water circulation, fertilizer dosage, etc. per day. I finally found this stuff and decided damn why not, it definitely couldn't make BGA any worse than it already was. I dosed as instructed but didn't add Aeroston as my filter settings create a lot of surface movement. I only dosed once but did a partial water change halfway through and replaced what I removed when I added new water. I was very disappointed the first few days: nothing had changed, algae was everywhere. Then all of a sudden, about the fifth or sixth day, it just started to melt. Large parts of it simply disappeared, others turned brownish and, as it were, dissolved. Within 7 or 8 days of my first dose, every BGA stain was gone. I've attached a before and after photo of my tank part. The top photo was taken just before treatment (and this was AFTER manually removing the tuft during a pre-treatment water change) and the bottom photo was taken 6 days later. There were a few tiny spots around the tank at this point, but as I said all spots were gone by day 8 or so. If you know the cause of an outbreak but still can't get rid of the algae, this product will be your lifesaver. If you don't know why you have a BGA, this is probably a temporary fix at best, but it may buy you time to figure out what the problem is. I will never be without again! And I almost forgot to mention that none of my fish, even the most sensitive ones, had absolutely no ill effects and didn't harm my beneficial bacteria at all.