Safe vs prime

I have been using prime on my 180 gallon tank for two years now it is a great product but because of my water changes I have to buy a $12 bottle of prime every four months I want to switch to safe. Safe only cost $8 a bottle and should last me a year or two. the local fish store told me not to he said that it doesn't remove heavy metals but The major concern is that he has seen people overdose and kill their fish.

Has anyone ever had experience with using too much safe by accident in killing their fish?

I want to use safe. I currently change my water with a python and refill it with the python just don't want to have any issues. But seachem says safe should be no problem.

 

With a tank as large as yours, you'll have an easier time dosing Safe and should be able to avoid overdosing. Overdosing would be more of a problem with smaller volumes of water where measuring the dose for that small of a volume is difficult.

 

Ok so I think I might try it. It seems much more cost effective. Should I add it while filling after water change?

 

I've never used it (my tanks are too small for it to be easy), so I'm not sure how easily it dissolves. I would imagines so, though?

 

Ok I'll give it a shot whenever my prime runs out. Thanks for the help

 

Hi, What will you use to remove the heavy metals though? Safe doesn't remove those.

Have you looked into Seachem Pond Prime? A 500ml bottle treats 10,000 gallons

 

I hadn't really thought heavy metals were a concern. Also thought they might be removed by carbon in tank. But that pond prime does seem to be a good option to I'll look into it thanks

 

CindiL this is from seachem.

Pond Prime and Prime are the same product but the dosing is different because in an open system like a pond, chlorine gases off the surface so you don't need to dechlorinate the water as much as you do in a closed environment.
You can use Pond Prime in your household tank but use the Prime dosing recommendations which can be found on the website.

They said that because a pond has such a large surface area with no lids like an aquarium chlorine naturally offgasses. So dechlorinator in not need at a more concentrated level. So prime can treat 2x the gallonage in a pond

 

Oh interesting! Thanks for checking on that.