Carp..... you are not helping your friends position, quite the opposite. No one cares how many PhD's he has, the very foundation of his argument is incorrect. ChlorAm-X and Seachem water conditioner formulas are not one in the same, and the reactions that he stated do not take place with Seachem products. Anyone that has been using these products for any length of time knows this.
Allow me to add one final note. With my local tap water treated @ 2ppm. an 8.8 lb container of Seachem Safe treats over 526,000 gallons of tap water. where 10 lb's of ChlorAm-X treats less than 75,000 gallons.
Those numbers are based on the manufacturers dosage rates. Hmmmmm.
Same formulas? LOL
The bisulfite that Doc keeps referring to is correct, but that is for ChlorAm-X, which is comprised of Sodium Hydroxymethanesulfonate, also known as Sodium Formaldehyde BISULFITE. I posted an old MSDS previously that showed that, the folks at ARG have never hidden that fact. The Seachem formula has never been posted as far as I know, so while the parent chemicals may be similar, they are not the same, they do not react the same, and they obviously do not function the same with chlorine and ammonia by the manufacturers own dosage rates for each products.
That should be rather obvious now, it takes SEVERAL times the amount of ChlorAm-X, as it does Safe, to treat the exact same volume of water, containing the exact same level of disinfectant. Which is precisely why I switched to Seachem Safe several years ago. More bang for the buck!
Only an idiot with no experience with these water conditioners would argue this further.
Allow me to add one final note. With my local tap water treated @ 2ppm. an 8.8 lb container of Seachem Safe treats over 526,000 gallons of tap water. where 10 lb's of ChlorAm-X treats less than 75,000 gallons.
Those numbers are based on the manufacturers dosage rates. Hmmmmm.
Same formulas? LOL
The bisulfite that Doc keeps referring to is correct, but that is for ChlorAm-X, which is comprised of Sodium Hydroxymethanesulfonate, also known as Sodium Formaldehyde BISULFITE. I posted an old MSDS previously that showed that, the folks at ARG have never hidden that fact. The Seachem formula has never been posted as far as I know, so while the parent chemicals may be similar, they are not the same, they do not react the same, and they obviously do not function the same with chlorine and ammonia by the manufacturers own dosage rates for each products.
That should be rather obvious now, it takes SEVERAL times the amount of ChlorAm-X, as it does Safe, to treat the exact same volume of water, containing the exact same level of disinfectant. Which is precisely why I switched to Seachem Safe several years ago. More bang for the buck!
Only an idiot with no experience with these water conditioners would argue this further.
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