Bragg

I do a 50% water change once a week. I started using the Top Fin water conditioner putting in 1ml per gallon of water added. Then I saw I needed help detoxifing ammonia after water change (recently tested tap water and it has 0.5 PPM to start with), so I started using Prime. The bottle of Prime didn't have dosage for one gallon, so I continued using the Top Fin water conditioner in each gallon and then about 15 minutes after the water change was completed I added the Prime about 2mls (12 gal tank and 1.2 mls was hard to estimate) to the whole tank. In reading recent threads I have now learned I can just use Prime and the dosage is 2 drops to 1 gallon. I am wondering if there are problems with the way I have been doing it, that anyone knows about.

mjordan

its not a real good idea using multle chemicals if one can do the trick...
but it shouldnt of hurt anything

Bragg

Thanks for the reply. I used only the Prime today. I liked adding the Prime to the water before I put it in the aquarium so that the ammonia is detoxified before the fish are exposed to it. I am wondering though about heavy metals. I notice from reading the bottle labels that Top Fin water conditioner removes heavy metals, whereas that wasn't mentioned on the Prime bottle. So if I just use Prime do I need to worry about copper? (I suspect my house does have some copper pipes). Someone on a thread mentioned that Prime does remove heavy metals but I am not sure where that info came from, as I couldn't find it on the bottle.

mjordan

copper pipes usually dont have much of an efect if not any on the water for the fish.

im right now looking at my prime bottle and i dont see that heavy metals are iliminated but i would expect they are..
dont quote me on that.

next: prime elliminates chlorines but no amonia/nitrate/nitrite
it puts it on hold so it does not hert your fish for 24 or 48 hours? i forget the exact time...
its acualy in amazing how it works...
if u have plants it doesnt destroy its food source.... the nitrates...
if u dont have a planted aquarium then it still works wonderful...
it gives u the advantage on the toxins so u can do a water change the next day.