Changing water conditioner

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Matth05

Matth05

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Just a quick question. Will immediately switching from Seachem Prime to Fritz Complete affect the aquarium in any way or is it all the same stuff? I noticed fritz complete is a way better bang for the buck, especially for a reputable brand like Fritz.
 
If you really want to go cheaper on the declorinator switch to Seachem Safe, the powdered version of Prime. I bought a bottle of it and used it for three years till I sold off my tanks. There was my guess another two years of use. And you know my water changes of every three days on three tanks.
 
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I have also used Seachem Safe dry powder made for ponds, and found it just as effective, and very economical when I had a few thousand gallons in tanks.
The basic ingredient to detoxify chlorine, is sodium (or calcium) thiosulfate, which I have also used bought as a salts, from a scientific chemical company, such as Fisher Sci, etc.
And never had a problem.
Of course these as dry ingredientsthat require you mix to mix it up yourself, and do the math for your own water change routines and volume.
 
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Definitely something I’ll look into. Currently buying Prime isn’t majorly expensive but it adds up just like anything else. I’m doing water changes on two tanks every 3 days so I can run through a bottle of prime fairly quickly. Thanks for the help as always guys?
 
If I remember correctly to dose my tanks (125gal where the city used chlorine) it was 1/16th of a teaspoon. With Prime I was using a 500ml bottle per month. I got my 250gram bottle of Safe from Amazon for a couple more dollars than a 500ml bottle of Prime.
 
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If I remember correctly to dose my tanks (125gal where the city used chlorine) it was 1/16th of a teaspoon. With Prime I was using a 500ml bottle per month. I got my 250gram bottle of Safe from Amazon for a couple more dollars than a 500ml bottle of Prime.
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I think I finish a 250ml bottle every month which isn’t that expensive really. Sometimes I’ll have a week or two though where I’ll do more water changes out of boredom lol. Especially when I don’t have any classes on break.
 
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The current instructions for Seachem Safe only remove up to 1 ppm chloramine or 1.25 ppm of chlorine. The old instructions (prior to 2014) of 1 teaspoon per 200g of water removed 4ppm chloramine or 5 ppm of chlorine from tap water. So best to find out how much your water district puts into the tap water.
 
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