What is your opinion of Stress Coat?
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I have used it for a decade and had good results during water changes and when the balas would flip out and crash into things and hurt themselves.
RTR isn't one to use "NIMFT" very often...though I'd like to hear the stories as to why he uses that particular abbreviation.
I used Stress Coat for awhile and haphazardly used it doing daily water changes in a 10 gal tank for a week (used extra on purpose, just a couple squirts). At the end of the week, just about everything in the tank had a slimy coating. Don't know what it was, thought it may have been the aloe vera. I'm not saying Stress Coat caused it, but I haven't had it happen before or since. Hasn't happened when I used the "proper" dose, hasn't happened since I began using Amquel either!
I used Stress Coat for awhile and haphazardly used it doing daily water changes in a 10 gal tank for a week (used extra on purpose, just a couple squirts). At the end of the week, just about everything in the tank had a slimy coating. Don't know what it was, thought it may have been the aloe vera. I'm not saying Stress Coat caused it, but I haven't had it happen before or since. Hasn't happened when I used the "proper" dose, hasn't happened since I began using Amquel either!
Ahem! It is "Not In My Fish Tanks". 
If someone choses to substitute oher descriptive terms, that is their choice.
Healthy fish do an excellent job of producing their own slime coat. All the colloids in the world, and a lot of the Aloe vera extract, will not serve as a replacement for a fish's natural product. How does anyone arrive at the diagnosis of insufficient slime coat, and then how do you determine that you have added enough commercial product to restore that? Preferably without clogging their gills or playing bizarre games with the osmolarity of the water, of course. IMHO, it is a product in search of something beneficial to do, another success story for Americam marketing expertise. :mad2
If someone choses to substitute oher descriptive terms, that is their choice.Healthy fish do an excellent job of producing their own slime coat. All the colloids in the world, and a lot of the Aloe vera extract, will not serve as a replacement for a fish's natural product. How does anyone arrive at the diagnosis of insufficient slime coat, and then how do you determine that you have added enough commercial product to restore that? Preferably without clogging their gills or playing bizarre games with the osmolarity of the water, of course. IMHO, it is a product in search of something beneficial to do, another success story for Americam marketing expertise. :mad2
RTR said:Ahem! It is "Not In My Fish Tanks".
Really!? O.k., if that's what you say...now I feel sheepish for THINKING you would use such an explicative. Darn that Harlock for brainwashing me...
I figure it's just a gimmick with the aloe vera stuff.
But I did use some on some beat up fingerling black crappie I recently got.
Well I now know not to waste my money on it.
Thanks
But I did use some on some beat up fingerling black crappie I recently got.
Well I now know not to waste my money on it.
Thanks
FYI all.
big Al's brand water conditioner is actually stress coat.
We have a deal with them to put our labels on the bottles and sell it as our brand.
Same goes for stress zyme * cough CRAP cough* we call it bio support.
Same goes for BA"s bio clean it is really the same junk as Hagens waste control.
Our BA's brand of plant fertilizer is Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Leaf Zone which is actually a decent product.
big Al's brand water conditioner is actually stress coat.
We have a deal with them to put our labels on the bottles and sell it as our brand.
Same goes for stress zyme * cough CRAP cough* we call it bio support.
Same goes for BA"s bio clean it is really the same junk as Hagens waste control.
Our BA's brand of plant fertilizer is Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Leaf Zone which is actually a decent product.
Make a deal with Seachem for Prime and the Flourish line. I'd save a bundle!ScottoMacD said:
Come on, I know you have that sort of pull...
:OT:ScottoMacD said:
My husband has been telling me for years that many store brand or no-name products are exactly the same as name brand - his cousin repairs factory equipment and computers, and says he has seen places where they change the containers and then resume running the equpiment, bottling the same stuff into different packaging! I never quite believed it was that simple, but... now I do.
Does BAs make their own foods, or are they identical to a name brand as well? (Nutrafin, possibly?)
sorry to off topic, but , I work for an automotive parts manufacturer, and the company is aware that the parts we make for aftermarket ( essentually store brand) will not be audited. So even though they are supposed to be the same, with a different name. They may or may not be. A lot depends on the integridity of the managers.
