Is stress coat a good water conditioner? I am currently using wardley chlor-out cus it is cheap but I bought some stress coat but I have not used it yet.
Stress Coat
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All de-chlors with the exception of Amquel and Prime use the same chemical.
Sodium Thiosulfate.
They all promise all sorts of things but they all only do one thing remove chlorine from tap water. The rest promised is a bunch of garbage especially the whole aloe thing. That is the biggest crock ever.
Basically you should buy the cheapest brand and save some money. Or better yet head to a local photography shop and buy the sodium thiosulfate and make your own conditioner. It's cheap something like $5 a pound. A pound treats 800 000 gallons of water. It is 15ml of thiosulfate for 500ml of tap water to make the solution. It will then take 1 drop per gallon to treat the tapwater that is going into your tank.
If you have cholramines however. Then you will want to use Prime or Amquel. they both use Sodium hydroxymethanesulfonate to remove the chloramine.
If you have chloramines and use a sodium thiosulfate based product it will adhear to the chlorine but will then release the ammonia that comprises the chloramine.
Sodium Thiosulfate.
They all promise all sorts of things but they all only do one thing remove chlorine from tap water. The rest promised is a bunch of garbage especially the whole aloe thing. That is the biggest crock ever.
Basically you should buy the cheapest brand and save some money. Or better yet head to a local photography shop and buy the sodium thiosulfate and make your own conditioner. It's cheap something like $5 a pound. A pound treats 800 000 gallons of water. It is 15ml of thiosulfate for 500ml of tap water to make the solution. It will then take 1 drop per gallon to treat the tapwater that is going into your tank.
If you have cholramines however. Then you will want to use Prime or Amquel. they both use Sodium hydroxymethanesulfonate to remove the chloramine.
If you have chloramines and use a sodium thiosulfate based product it will adhear to the chlorine but will then release the ammonia that comprises the chloramine.
FishKeeper-16 said:
Yes.
[edit] actually to use the term correctly it "binds" heavy metals [edit]
Chloramine is a compound molecule of chlorine and amonia. If you use something that only treats chlorine and your water company is using chloramine, you will have an amonia spike when the amonia is set free.