Question about Seachem Prime

[RaptorX8]

I know a lot of people use it, I just switched to it earlier this year.

So I went to use it today, shook it up, opened it, and Holy Olfactory Senses, Batman! It sinks! I used it a few days ago and it didn't smell.

Is this normal or has something gone horribly wrong and I need to replace it?

[DragonFish]

Eh....Prime smells. Pretty bad. xD Don't worry, theres nothing wrong with it, its pretty normal.

[NorthernLights]

On the bottle somewhere it says "sulpher smell is normal".

Sulpher smells like rotten eggs.

Sometimes I notice it, sometimes I don't.

[RaptorX8]

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.

[babystarz]

If you think Prime smells bad, don't ever use Flourish XD

[Kytkattin]

Originally Posted by babystarz

If you think Prime smells bad, don't ever use Flourish XD

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.

[Kevron56]

Yum!

[Aurie]

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!

[finnfinnfriend]

Originally Posted by RaptorX8

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.

Theres a date on it? I dont think prime expires...

[Kevron56]

Originally Posted by Aurie

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?