Thanks. I've been using it so much and I've never noticed the smell before. I thought maybe something had gone wrong with the stuff. I even checked the date on it.
Maybe I'm still just used to sulfur smells and other things. I used to work in a photo lab and man can that stuff stink but you get used to it and eventually don't smell it anymore unless it gets really bad.
Flourish isn't that bad. It smells like the earth. Kind of rotting earth, like where you would find mushrooms. I think Prime is much worse, but then, I am weird and like rotting earth smell. :lol:
I started using prime then I got an outbreak of blue green algea in the tank.. I don't think it caused the outbreak since my white clouds in that tank had 29 babies in there, which was the cause but I didn't know if the nasty smell was the prime or something else
It was something else.. BGA STINKS worse than prime!
I think I have some blue green algae in my tank, I have a question re the smell.... What does it smell like? AND how close does the noggin' have to be to get a whiff of it?
Ugh, the dreaded cyanobacteria. I've got a horrid outbreak of it in my 10 gallon and am trying to get it under control without medications. It's a pain in the rear.
Well try having BGA and cracking a new bottle of prime.. one VERY unhappy corner of the living room.. My dog actually went into the other room immediately LOL
This is not really a question of smell...but will Prime lower the ammonia levels in the water? The water where I live has 0.5 ppm coming out of the tap and I am worried that it will harm my fish down the road (I actually think the ammonia is the reason I lost my second rescue this week). Doing water changes alone is not enough as the new water has the same levels as the water I am taking out.
Prime doesn't remove ammonia, but it does bind it into a non-toxic form (ammonium, I believe) for 24-48 hours. I have a similar problem with my tap water - the way I get around it is to use Prime and have lots of live plants. The theory is that Prime makes the ammonia harmless for long enough that the plants can pick all of it up. Posted via Mobile Device
If your tank is cycled, the bb should be able to process it to nitrate before the prime magic wears off. If you don't want to use a ammonia binder, run a fully cycled sponge or what ever filter in the bucket of replacement water. The ammonia will be processed to nitrate in a day or so.
(couldn't find the thread lol)
The 10 gallon I have has been established for...a month now? So I should have some BB growing in there by now lol. Just worried that I will spend $7 on a whole big thing of the Prime and it not end up working (I know it is also a conditioner but I already have a whole bottle of API...lol)
Thanks!
And Paloverde has a clever application of the "bucket cycle." A little bit of effort, but it would keep the DOCs to a minimum.
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