MICROBE-LIFT Special Blend Aquarium Treatment, Fish Tank Water Conditioner for Freshwater and Saltwater Tanks, Helps with Aquarium Algae Control and Odor, 16 Ounces (SBH16)

Here is my workaround: Open it outside and pour into your measure container. Let it off gas a few minutes. Then bring inside and add to your tank. After the offgassing process is complete it smells no different than other high-quality microbial lens. This one is more concentrated. I highly recommend!!! Excellent product!!! It saved my tank. Take notice, it does have an incredibly strong odor but see workaround above.

I will always swear by this product for my fish tanks. I extend the cleaning period of my tanks and helps my live plants and the fish. Water is always way clearer with constant use, quality of life is better for the fish and for the most part, pretty easy to use unless you have tank sizes not mentioned and then you have to do some math on it. Great product and I will never stop using this for my fish tanks.

I’ve been using this along with Nite out II weekly and it has kept my water crystal clear. The smell is diabolical so beware. I pour it in the cup outside and let it air off before bringing into the house. It literally makes me gag if I smell it. Thank you to the other reviewers that recommended gassing it off outdoors first. Trust me you don’t want this smell indoors. My tank is so fresh ironically using these two products. No fishy or musty tank water smell.

Works great on my freshwater tanks. That’s with me switching from api brand. WARNING the smell is strong as heck! Makes the whole room smell like rotten eggs.

Hello all. I have a planted 55 gallon aquarium with 9 neon tetras, 7 red common tetra,4 pigmy gouramis,6 zebra danios,1 bristle nose pleco,2 nerite snails, and 5 amano shrimp. This tank was set up 2 years ago and established. I decided to use microbe lift as a maintenance when i top off any evaporated water. If you are using uv lights, please turn it off for 12 to 24 hours before first application. I observed visually what was happening about 4 hours later and i noticed very small debris floating in the water column. This product starts working right away. 12 hours later and everything looks good. Clear water, fish are active and all is well. I am planning to attempt to set up a 10 gallon aquarium using the walstad method. I will use microbe lift on this next project. Will update with results when i can. P.s. microbe lift smells like rotten sewage. I suggest to get your dose set up outside, cover cap , go inside quickly amd dump it in aquarium. The smell dissipates quickly. Once in water no more smell. Please try not to spill any indoors. Update 9/25/24. This liquid is great. Water is crystal clear. It even got rid of black hair algae. I add 30 ml once a month. No water changes at all since I started using this product, just a top off due to evaporation. I rn a fluval 407 canister filter, I serviced it 2 weeks ago, and I was surprised at how clean the foam pads were, no build up whatsoever.

Highly recommend! Noticeable difference after one month of use.

I am never buying from this brand again going forward. I decided to detour from the typical Seachem and API brands I have always used without issue and I severely regret it. The bottle arrived with a heavy caking inside the entire bottle that seems like it fused with the plastic and a lot of it flaked off when poured. The intense smell didn't bother me, as I was expecting it from the reviews. However, just 2 months after first using the brand new product, I noticed that almost all of the pungent smell was now gone when opened, even with proper storage and temperature control. I thought that maybe a lot of the bacteria had died, but I naively chose to use it anyway. I wrongly thought that worst case scenario it just wouldn't just be as effective as before, I didn't think that this would mean that it was now super toxic, being that it was so new still. I wrote an email to this company through their website to ask if this was normal, the smell going away so quickly, and they make you fill out a huge questionnaire with all of your water parameters just to be able to ask them a basic question. In the meantime, my fish started dying left and right, and I have a few barely hanging on for their lives right now and in obvious distress, even after water changes. It's easy to just think as a human 'oh the fish died', but no, they are family, and I really hate being the cause of pain and misery for the things I am responsible for and in my care. These were little precious living souls lost, suffering so much in the process. This was unnecessary and avoidable. And this company never responded to me. I didn't tell them that my fish died, I only asked them about the smell of the product and if this was normal for the smell to dissipate in such a short period of time. That's how much they care about their product, and about us!

Great product but was missing the box that is suppose to come in with the complete directions. The bottle contains some directions but not the important part that says to turn off your uv sterilizer for 48 to 72 hours or the part telling you to also turn off your ozone.

5 stars! Dosed this morning in my reef tank and my tank is half as cloudy as it was yesterday due to an incidental bacteria bloom. Will keep up with the maintenance dose every 2 weeks and provide an updated review. However, it literally smells like a dog pooped on the floor, right beside your tank lol. The smell seems to travel through the house too. Recommended to use an air purifier and open a window lol. Edit 2025.11.1 From morning until night, this stuff cleared my tank of an algae bloom. For two weeks, my tank has been cloudy. This stuff cleared my tank to crystal clear water. Not sure of the long term effect, but I'm satisfied so far

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Stinkt wie die größte Jauche Grube überhaupt aber hat mir wirklich beim Einlaufen meines Meerwasserbeckens geholfen, sehr bald nach der ersten Impfung haben sie die Wasserwerte stabilisiert und der Algenwachstum ist zurückgegangen, den Rest haben meine fleißigen Krebse und manuelles ernten mit dem Kescher aus dem Bodengrund erledigt. Benutze es aktuell noch immer einmal die Woche !!!

Eu recomendo muito esse acelerador ele realmente funciona mesmo com o preço elevado cumpre o que promete

I rate this as a good product. The packaging should be bigger because I used a double dose. It is expensive in general use. This fluid works well