Water Change Question
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They are actually two very different formulas, that perform two very different tasks.
API is best used to detoxify chlorine treated tap water, as it is based on sodium thiosulfate. This is clear when you look at their SDS. http://apifishcare.com/pdfs/product...r/tap-water-conditioner-safety-data-sheet.pdf
Also, if you read API's directions, for chloramine they simply increase the dosage, to ensure the chlorine/ammonia bond in chloramine is broken. Fine for some set ups, and smaller water changes, not a good option for those with chloramine treated tap water, especially those folks that like to perform massive water changes.
Seachem Prime & Safe are best used to treat chloramine treated tap water, as both break the chlorine/ammonia bond, but also treat and detoxify the resulting free ammonia (NH3) that is left when that split takes place.
For those that simply have to deal with chlorine year round, then buying sodium thiosulfate in bulk is the most economical way to go. You can read more in the following sticky on this subject.
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HTH
API is best used to detoxify chlorine treated tap water, as it is based on sodium thiosulfate. This is clear when you look at their SDS. http://apifishcare.com/pdfs/product...r/tap-water-conditioner-safety-data-sheet.pdf
Also, if you read API's directions, for chloramine they simply increase the dosage, to ensure the chlorine/ammonia bond in chloramine is broken. Fine for some set ups, and smaller water changes, not a good option for those with chloramine treated tap water, especially those folks that like to perform massive water changes.
Seachem Prime & Safe are best used to treat chloramine treated tap water, as both break the chlorine/ammonia bond, but also treat and detoxify the resulting free ammonia (NH3) that is left when that split takes place.
For those that simply have to deal with chlorine year round, then buying sodium thiosulfate in bulk is the most economical way to go. You can read more in the following sticky on this subject.
Cost Effective Water Conditioners
This subject came up recently in another discussion & I felt that it deserved its own thread. Hopefully it will help give some members a better understanding about water conditioners in general, and more importantly help save them some of their hard earned money. The only way that...
www.monsterfishkeepers.com
HTH
They are actually two very different formulas, that perform two very different tasks.
API is best used to detoxify chlorine treated tap water, as it is based on sodium thiosulfate. This is clear when you look at their SDS. http://apifishcare.com/pdfs/product...r/tap-water-conditioner-safety-data-sheet.pdf
Also, if you read API's directions, for chloramine they simply increase the dosage, to ensure the chlorine/ammonia bond in chloramine is broken. Fine for some set ups, and smaller water changes, not a good option for those with chloramine treated tap water, especially those folks that like to perform massive water changes.
Seachem Prime & Safe are best used to treat chloramine treated tap water, as both break the chlorine/ammonia bond, but also treat and detoxify the resulting free ammonia (NH3) that is left when that split takes place.
For those that simply have to deal with chlorine year round, then buying sodium thiosulfate in bulk is the most economical way to go. You can read more in the following sticky on this subject.
Cost Effective Water Conditioners
This subject came up recently in another discussion & I felt that it deserved its own thread. Hopefully it will help give some members a better understanding about water conditioners in general, and more importantly help save them some of their hard earned money. The only way that...
HTH
That was a great read, thanks
RD.
One question, in the dosage for ammonia treatment, in that thread, instructions were to not overdose. I wondered if it would be (and how) bad, if someone dosed safe everyday or every other day for a mini or complete cycle. Will it build up and cause issue? Seachem says safe is not stable in liquid form as prime is. Does the recommendation of not overdosing comes for the initial state of safe (first 24-48 hours) or later.
Prime/Safe are reducing agents, and once ammonia is no longer available to reduce they will begin reducing oxygen. 02 depletion is the reason that one does not want to overdose, especially in tanks where 02 levels may be borderline low to begin with.