Stress Coat

A one gallon jug of StressCoat costs $25.59 and treats 7680 gallons (.33 cents per gallon of treated water).

A 16 oz. bottle of Chlorinex costs $6.49 and treats 7000 gallons (or .09 cents per gallon of treated water).

[Both prices quoted from That Pet Place website.]

Both dechlorinate water. (In fact, I'd hazard a guess that they have the exact same dechlorinator.) You can get plain sodium thiosulfate (the active ingredient in many dechlorinators) from a number of fish supply houses for a fraction the cost of either of those.

It's your money...

Jim
 
Originally posted by JSchmidt
A one gallon jug of StressCoat costs $25.59 and treats 7680 gallons (.33 cents per gallon of treated water).

A 16 oz. bottle of Chlorinex costs $6.49 and treats 7000 gallons (or .09 cents per gallon of treated water).
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Your price per gallon math is way off, but yeah I agree, Stress Coat is very expensive compared to other conditioners.
I don't use Stress Coat much, but I'm glad I have it. I don't think its good to use for water changes because of its high cost. It is good for occasional use though, like to treat fish that are injured or have torn up fins. My fish seem to heal alot quicker when I use it.
 
Originally posted by chefkeith


Your price per gallon math is way off, but yeah I agree, Stress Coat is very expensive compared to other conditioners.
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StressCoat
$25.59/7680 = $.0033/gallon = .33 cents/gallon

Chlorinex
$6.49/7000 = $.0009/gallon = .09 cents/gallon

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Sorry - let me re-phrase my sentence:

It is one of the cheapest conditioner I have seen around my area that does:

- Remove Chlorine
- Remove Cholramine
- Remove toxic metals

These are what I want, and most conditioners do remove them. I looked into ChloroOut and although it is cheaper, it only removed chlorine...
 
StressCoat does NOT remove chloramine.

From the Aquarium Pharmaceuticals website FAQ on StressCoat ( http://aquariumpharm.com/flashSite.html ):

Does Stress Coat remove chlorine and chloramines?

It removes chlorine and the chlorine component of chloramine.


Will Stress Coat detoxify Ammonia?

No. If you need to detoxify ammonia use Ammo-Lock 2.



It does nothing more than ChloroOut, at least as far as chloramines are concerned...

HTH,
Jim
 
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that part of chloramine removing process? Since stress coat will remove the cholrine component, only ammonia (the other component of chloramine?) will be remaining which will be removed by the bacteria (hopefully!).

I personally don't want to add any ammonia removing chemicals into the tank as it might disturb the tank chemistry balance...
 
By not treating for ammonia along with chlorine, you are ammonia-stressing the fish every time you water change, which is sort of defeating the purpose of that exercise is it not? You are, in effect, minicycling every water change. Not in my fish tanks, thank you very much.
 
Originally posted by yhbae
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that part of chloramine removing process? Since stress coat will remove the cholrine component, only ammonia (the other component of chloramine?) will be remaining which will be removed by the bacteria (hopefully!).

I personally don't want to add any ammonia removing chemicals into the tank as it might disturb the tank chemistry balance...
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Some products that claim to remove chloramine actually detoxify both harmful components - chlorine as well as ammonia. Amquel, Prime and AmmoLock2 are the products I'm familiar with, and used as treatment for new water, you almost never hear of problems with them for general FW use. The don't seem to have any negative effects for 99% of us.

Other products (e.g., StressCoat and most garden variety dechlorinators) may say they remove chloramine, but only detoxify the chlorine, freeing the ammonia. Personally, if the product is leaving behind half the toxic chemicals, I don't consider it to have 'removed' chloramine. That the ammonia isn't treated isn't mentioned on the packaging, last time I looked, which I find a bit misleading. At least they tell the truth on their web site.

Whether one gets worked up over the amount of ammonia freed from chloriminated water by StressCoat and its ilk is a personal choice. My main objection is that for about the same money as a gallon of StressCoat, you can get a gallon of Amquel that actually will detoxify chloramine, not just chlorine.

Jim
 
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As I mentioned before, I have nothing for or against stress coat - it worked for ME so far, and I will continue to use it until it runs out. I'm not 100% sure if I have chloramine as my call to the hydro company didn't give me any confidence if they do use it or not... I use it as a precautionary measure only.

It is interesting though - does anyone have problem using stress coat in water that actually does contain chloramine? If this is the case, surely we would have heard it by now as this product is super popular on the market. Last time I studied chemistry is over 15 years ago, so I'm not going to even try to figure out what chemically happens within the water.

I'll look around to see what is the best value around when the current supply runs out. If I can get the Amquel for a cheap price, I'd try it out. I have a feeling that I don't have chloromine in my water since I have never detected any sign of ammonia just after water change, though.
 
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