Prime

[Pyramid_Party]

Hi,


How are you guys using this? I think I been overdosing. It says use 5 ml for 50 gallons of new water. So you would use 1 ml for 10 gallons. But Ive heard people say that you dose for complete tank volume. Meaning, if you removed 50 gallons from 100 gallon tank, you would dose for full 100 gallons instead of 50 gallons of new water. Is this all correct? Or should you only dose for whatever you are replacing/adding? I just dont want to be wasting prime if I dont have to. Thanks

 

[RedTailKinG]

ur fine

 

[fatpike]

I just reached over and read the back of my bottle. Dose for volume of new water if you're using the bucket method. Dose for total volume of tank if you add prime directly to tank and fill with hose.

 

[packer43064]

Yep dose for tank. 10 ml will do 10 gallons and so on. Each thread on the cap is 10 ml and the capful does 50ml.

Only time you dose for other than the tank is if you use a bucket, then you would dose for the bucket, then dump the water into the tank.

 

[tcarswell]

Yep dose for tank. 10 ml will do 10 gallons and so on. Each thread on the cap is 10 ml and the capful does 50ml.

Only time you dose for other than the tank is if you use a bucket, then you would dose for the bucket, then dump the water into the tank.

Yup , I prefer this method. Whisk stir it and bam. No gill burning

 

[hybridtheoryd16]

i think that is a typo it is every thread is 1ml and not 10. I think a cap full is 5ml.---------just for clarification.

 

[packer43064]

i think that is a typo it is every thread is 1ml and not 10. I think a cap full is 5ml.---------just for clarification.

LOL Thanks yes a typo.

 

[cassharper]

You will be fine dosing for the water you replace, think about... the water in the tank is already dechlorinated. You have to try to OD prime, though, so you won't be hurting adding for the whole tank.

 

[Bud8Fan]

You will be fine dosing for the water you replace, think about... the water in the tank is already dechlorinated. You have to try to OD prime, though, so you won't be hurting adding for the whole tank.

It's effectiveness is diluted once added to water. That is why you dose for the volume of the entire tank and not just the water you add.

Unless of course you add it to a bucket or aging tank first.

 

[bigspizz]

Prime builds up....It causes oxygen deprivation when it builds up. I do a "naked change" every now and again, to insure there is no build up. Send sea chem an E-mail, they will tell you this, just like they told me. Just test for chlorine after the naked change to see that it was all eliminated from the residual prime.