thumper

so when you do your weekly water changes and you add your water conditioner to the tank do you dose for the hole tank or just the 10% to20% you change?

Jonah

personally I dose for the whole tank. With Prime its easier as I dont have to use a pipet to get miniscule amounts for the say 5 or 10 gal i am changing

thumper

so it souhndt hurt if i dose for the hole 55 gallons every week thank you

Jonah

Thats what I do to mine each week and it seems to thrive, having just had to fish another 40 or 50 fry out this week alone

Lucy

Assuming I'm only using it as a dechlorinator not to detox ammonia or treat for frayed fins, I only condition the new water.

thumper

thats all i would be doing is useing it as a dechlorinator and nothing more unless i have a mini cycle which i am going to try to aviode if i can by add new fish very so and not to many at a time lol

agabr123

i just treat the new water i'm adding to the tank, not the whole tank if you're using a python then you treat the whole tank (because it adds water directly from the tap to your tank) but otherwise i'd suggest just treating the new water

aquarist48

I treat for the entire 155g's

catfishtabbi

With weekly wtaer changes i doubt you'll have problems with ammonia, so i think PRE-TREAT the water your adding to the tank . I say before adding it to be safe. Many people lose thier fish right after water changes where they don't treat it first.

Moe Jacob

I only treat the new water using Prime for my 55 gallon (all my tanks for that matter). 10 % weekly PWC keeps my tank nice and healthy, no probs so far. I do however, add Stress Coat to the entire tank when adding new fish ... makes me feel "not so guilty" for stressing them out ...

catfishtabbi

I've never used stress coat, yet. I added aq salt to my tanks to help the fish produce thier own slime coat, but thats it.
well theres alot more but i'll stay on this subject. I used novaqua+ which helps slimecoat,immunity and more.