At some time, most aquarists will experience a situation in which a
sudden spike in the amount of dissolved and/or particulate organic
material in an aquarium poses a significant risk to the health of the
aquarium inhabitants. Fundamentally, all aquarium inhabitants,
regardless of their purchase price, abundance, or origin should be cared
for with the same attention to maintaining water quality, but there is
little question that an aquarist who has invested massive resources in
fishes, invertebrates, and/or plants stands to lose a considerable deal
if water quality degrades to the point in which these organisms begin to
perish. The typical approach to correct this problem is to employ a
large-scale water change and activated carbon or similar means of
chemical filtration to help remove the substances responsible for water
quality degradation. However, there are times when employing these
methods will not work fast enough. Similarly, if the bioload of the
aquarium is significantly increased by the addition of new inhabitants, a
spike in the concentration of organic material can ensue that will
negatively impact the health of all inhabitants in the system.
RedoxIclean is a useful tool for hobbyists wishing to support the
existing biological and chemical filtration while it adjusts to an
increase in bioload and/or the concentration of organic material in an
aquarium (whether intentional or accidental). It performs this task by
immediately reacting with latent (non-living) organic material and
breaking it down at a molecular level, making it more readily removable
for biological and chemical filtration. Most experienced aquarium
hobbyists learn to "expect the unexpected"; having a bottle of
RedoxIclean on hand can help lower the impact of, and in some cases
avoid, organic-related problems to such an extent that pre-existing
filtration is able to gradually adjust and compensate for any residual
latent organic material. It is helpful to monitor the ORP in an
aquarium, particularly in heavily-stocked systems (regardless of their
overall volume); a sudden and unusual decrease in the ORP essentially
indicates that the concentration of organic material in the aquarium has
increased above normal levels. Such an increase usually results in
elevated ammonia and phosphate concentrations; left unchecked, the
aquarium inhabitants and display will begin to suffer.