Seachem Prime & Stability

[Sausage]

Hi,

I have just invested in some Seachem Prime and Seachem Stability. Has anyone used these before and are they ok to dose the water at the same time as eachother?

 

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Seachem Prime is probably the top-rated conditioner product (dechlorination/dechloramination, heavy metal and ammonia handling) and is an excellent for a beginner to use to dechlor tap water during the fishless cycling period when the bacterial colonies are young and fragile. After 6 months or so, when the colonies are robust and strong, this option is still fine but can become a bit expensive for most, so often we recommend taking a look at pond conditioner products, which are much cheaper and will do the job.

Seachem Stability appears to be mostly a "bacteria in a bottle product" (members correct me if I'm overlooking other benefits) and I've not had direct experience with it. Normally, with nearly all "bottled bacteria" products we warn beginners that its very rare that they help or even work at all. This may be an example of a good company not being able to resist the money to be made, despite the near-universal problems with this type of product. Since you've already got it and if you intend not to return it, it should not hurt to use it in combination with Prime at all, to answer your question.

Use of a bottled bacteria product could become a problem if you let it stop you from following the standard fishless or fish-in cycling guidelines found here in the "New to the Hobby" forum. On the other hand, if you are following those closely and getting advice when there are questions, there should be no problem using such a product as there's never been a report of one actually slowing down a cycle, and if you're lucky it might even help a tiny bit.

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[Truck]

seachem stability has worked for bronzecat and rabbut is testing it.

i might buy some and try it

 

[Sausage]

Seachem Prime is probably the top-rated conditioner product (dechlorination/dechloramination, heavy metal and ammonia handling) and is an excellent for a beginner to use to dechlor tap water during the fishless cycling period when the bacterial colonies are young and fragile. After 6 months or so, when the colonies are robust and strong, this option is still fine but can become a bit expensive for most, so often we recommend taking a look at pond conditioner products, which are much cheaper and will do the job.

Seachem Stability appears to be mostly a "bacteria in a bottle product" (members correct me if I'm overlooking other benefits) and I've not had direct experience with it. Normally, with nearly all "bottled bacteria" products we warn beginners that its very rare that they help or even work at all. This may be an example of a good company not being able to resist the money to be made, despite the near-universal problems with this type of product. Since you've already got it and if you intend not to return it, it should not hurt to use it in combination with Prime at all, to answer your question.

Use of a bottled bacteria product could become a problem if you let it stop you from following the standard fishless or fish-in cycling guidelines found here in the "New to the Hobby" forum. On the other hand, if you are following those closely and getting advice when there are questions, there should be no problem using such a product as there's never been a report of one actually slowing down a cycle, and if you're lucky it might even help a tiny bit.

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Thanks for the help with this guys. From the research I have done on Seachem products such as Prime, Stability, Clarity and PH Neutral, they seem to pretty damn effective and poplular.

 

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I really like Seachem a lot too and use a ton of their products, but I would like to point out that its really important also for all beginners to have a chance to understand that there is an importance in not putting more things in their tank than really needed. There are problems with using chemicals to correct problems. There's nearly always the danger of long-term buildup of unwanted things, so one needs to be careful of being too enamored with chemical additives, no matter how good they are at what they do.

Not trying to discourage at all, just feel that this is an important principle to be passed on in the "New to the Hobby" section and needs to be mentioned.

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