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How to make floating Bacter AE sink in your aquarium

When dosing the Glas Garten Bacter AE Water Additive Micro Powder, you may notice that it will stay afloat at the top of your tank water. You can check out this guide at Aquarium Blueprints to see how you can make this supplementary powder food sink.

Why Bacter AE floats in your shrimp aquarium

Since the Bacter AE is micro powder, it is extremely lightweight. As a result, it won’t sink easily in water as heavier objects.

Is floating Bacter AE harmful?

The floating powder of the Bacter AE should not be harmful to Caridina, Neocaridina or other inhabitants of your tank. However, overdosing this product can cause major issues.

How to make floating Bacter AE sink

There are several ways to make the floating Bacter AE powder sink in your fish tank.

The first method is to simply wait as the powder should eventually makes its way down the water column and settle down on the substrate, plants and décor on your tank.

If you are impatient, then you can also try stirring the top of the water in your aquarium as doing so should make the micro powder sink faster. This method should also help spread Bacter AE all around your tank.

If you don’t want to stir the tank, then you can also try temporary increasing the bubble stone or water flow of your aquarium. If you decide to go with this method, make sure you that you don’t increase the bubbles or flow too much as a high currents may stress out your shrimps.

How to prevent Bacter AE from floating in your tank

In order to prevent Bacter AE from floating in your tank, you can first scoop up a small amount of water from your aquarium with a clean bowl, cup or other type of container.

Next, you need to add the Bacter AE powder to the water that you just removed from the tank.

Afterwards, stirred the Bacter AE with the removed water in the container until you don’t see any of the powder staying afloat. Make sure you mix it really good before continuing.

Finally, you can drop the mixed powder water back into your tank.

Some aquarium hobbyists also like to use a clean turkey baster or liquid syringe when putting the mixed Bacter AE water back into their tanks as doing so will provide better control when it comes to where the powder will sink to.