why does prime smell so bad?

[jclyde13]

i assume you go around smelling old people?

What, are you saying you don't? ........weirdo.

 

[Lupin]

LMAO! Weirdos. I don't really like the Prime's smell but it's bearable. *shrugs*

 

[Lupin]

I disagree. It's not the worst smell ever. If you ever had missing dead fish hidden in the house that you couldn't find, man that sticks like hell.

When I had like 20 bichirs in a tank and a few of them would jump out and decompose behind the tank, and I would only notice the smell and thought I must have some dead rats in the house but couldn't find any rat.....

Try a bag of dead snails. That's a lot worse.

 

[jclyde13]

I think Prime is a great smell. It always reminds me of fish keeping.

I wouldn't call it a "great" smell, but I can never resist sniffing it whenever I do a water change.

 

[FoxFire110]

I find the smell to be nasty, but it goes away fairly quickly, however there are worse smells, What about the smell of massivore, it made the whole house reek

 

[Ogrim]

I've just switched to "Seachem Prime" water conditioner because it removes CHLORINE, CHLORAMINE & traces of HEAVY METALS. Oh & of course the concetration factor. Now only one or two other water conditioners do all that

I am not sure what smell are you alarmed about, but I'll have a sniff when I get home
I use a dropper to measure Prime & dump it in the new water. Done in a couple of seconds.
Also, ********s smell as well & they are still being carried around, because they serve they purpose well

 

[knifegill]

The Kent dechlorinator is for fresh, too? I have always used Prime because it's the most cost effective. I'll have to compare prices with the Kent stuff and see who wins.

 

[Ogrim]

Here is a link to a table on "Review - Water Conditioners & Dechlorinators" if any of you are interested
http://www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/rev-cond.htm

 

[CLDarnell]

Crap, now I have to smell it when I get home. I've always just poured and dumped...I never took the time to sniff it lol

(Is it OK to quote myself? )

I just "sampled" it. Not as bad as I thought it was going to be, but yeah, it's pretty nasty! My daughter just tried it too. She wrinkled up her nose and said "Dad, it smells like poop!" lol

 

[Burtess]

The dechlorinating compound in Prime is Sodium Thiosulfate (also spelled "Thiosulphate") Key terms being the "sulphate/sulfate" part. This means it has sulfur in it, and as we all know, that's the "rotten egg smell." Farts, poop, rotten egg smell = Sulfur.

Actually Prime is made of hydrosulfite salts, not thiosulfate. Sodium thiosulfate has not odour (at neutral pH's).
Hydrosulfites will have the rotten egg odour.

Burt