help using prime based off of city water quality report

[Oscar Mike]

Yup prime is literally just Safe with distilled water added to it. 500mL of Prime is $11 and treats 5k gallons, while 1kg of Safe is $26 on Amazon and treats 200k gallons. At those prices, Safe will actually last 20 times longer than prime. Since your water is only being treated with chlorine and not chloramines, you could save even more money by using straight sodium thiosulfate or just storing the water for 24hrs (provided the storage container has adequate circulation), but I prefer Safe because it detoxifies nitrite/nitrate and my water has 15ppm nitrates out of the tap

 

[DDK]

I also use safe. I was always sketchy about it because I didnt know the dosage and was scared i would over dose but you simply cant unless you dump 1/4th the bottle into a 50 gallon lol. I got the 1kilo bottle and they should come with a measuring spoon now. But if it doesnt, just email them and ask for a measuring spoon respectfully and they will mail you one as they mailed me and many others. The spoon holds 100mg and through some research it should treat 35 gallons of water of the highest amount of chlorine allowed in any water system.

About safe
http://www.seachem.com/Products/product_pages/Safe.html

Contact for spoon
http://www.seachem.com/Contact/Contact.html

Where to buy for a decent price
http://www.amazon.com/Seachem-11603...8&qid=1387781399&sr=8-1&keywords=seachem+safe

I been using mine for about 5 months and I have barely used 1/4th of it doing weekly water changes on a 220, 75, 55, 45, and a couple of 20/10 gallon tanks.

And ps I overdose often, it cant hurt. If you do over dose it will bond to ammonia and nitrite and your beneficial bacteria will still be able to convert it into nitrate or just evaporate out, so overdosing is out of the question.

 

[duanes]

Free chlorine is simply chlorine, and is used as a primary disinfectant in an early part of the water treatment process.
The term Total chlorine is used to describe chloramine (a combination of ammonia and chlorine ( usually 1part ammonia to 4 parts chlorine)), and is added just before the water enters the distribution system, to provide a longer term disinfection residual.
Whether a dechlorinater is used to a bucket, or directly into the tank should not alter the amount added.
I add dechlorinator for the ball park amount of water changed, not the total of the tank.
The chlorine neutralization process is an almost instantaneous chemical reaction.

 

[xraycer]

Yup prime is literally just Safe with distilled water added to it. 500mL of Prime is $11 and treats 5k gallons, while 1kg of Safe is $26 on Amazon and treats 200k gallons. At those prices, Safe will actually last 20 times longer than prime. Since your water is only being treated with chlorine and not chloramines, you could save even more money by using straight sodium thiosulfate or just storing the water for 24hrs (provided the storage container has adequate circulation), but I prefer Safe because it detoxifies nitrite/nitrate and my water has 15ppm nitrates out of the tap

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