Heavy metals in well water?

Just use prime its a hell of a lot cheaper because you don't use nearly as much I just recently switched from aqua safe to prime. Two drops from an eyedroper per gallon. Its better to be safe then sorry.

I don't use anything in our well water, I used to and realized it was a waste of money. Prime, etc 'claim' they neutralize a few metals but I looked and looked and couldn't find a single thing verifying it.

Well water is as likely to have metals as tapwater, as the water in a well has 'diffused' through rock, and can contain anything soluble in the rock.

Prime and Waterlife Haloex work out 100x cheaper than Aquasafe, which is more or less the same stuff but diluted.

Why don't you get your water tested to see if there are any heavy metals? You may find conditioner isn't needed.

The important thing is location, location, location.

Where I live well water is generally very good quality in general (slightly basic, reasonably low in iron, negligible heavy metals, 0 nitrate), but 10 miles away the water is terrible. The only way to really know is to have your water tested.

As far as using prime or other water conditioners: Do you drink the water? If so, I certainly wouldn't bother conditioning...

What size are your tanks and how many you got?

Dan Feller;3883498; said:

As far as using prime or other water conditioners: Do you drink the water? If so, I certainly wouldn't bother conditioning...

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We can drink water with enough heavy metals to cause damage to fish without being able to taste it. Same with a lot of contaminants. We are far less affected by impurities in water than fish are.