Interesting conclusion.Definitely disagree, and your knowledge is waaaaaaaaaaaaay above mine and pretty much everyone else for this stuff....but it did work. I would have lost all my fish at the time if it wasn't for prime in that 40g.
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Interesting conclusion.Definitely disagree, and your knowledge is waaaaaaaaaaaaay above mine and pretty much everyone else for this stuff....but it did work. I would have lost all my fish at the time if it wasn't for prime in that 40g.
I know RHF says it won't help or wouldn't recommend prime, but just do a double dose of it. If my **** was dying, I'd do it. It shouldn't cause any harm if you do use it, unless you use certain copper stuff, like cupramine, in your display. You can't really overdose it, but if you do, it can deplete oxygen.I’ve done several large water changes but it’s not seeming to help. I’m not sure what this person did while cleaning the house. I checked the tank thoroughly and nothing was dead that I could find. I have a bunch of bubblers going right now to try and create more aeration. The bleach smell in the hall where the tank is was bad enough to give me a headache when I walked in.
Definitely disagree, and your knowledge is waaaaaaaaaaaaay above mine and pretty much everyone else for this stuff....but it did work. I would have lost all my fish at the time if it wasn't for prime in that 40g.
The unfortunate thing is with these things is that sometimes there is kind of a cascade effect - and sometimes things show effects at different rates. Can you do another measure of your ammonia, and pH and salinity?I’ve done several large water changes but it’s not seeming to help. I’m not sure what this person did while cleaning the house. I checked the tank thoroughly and nothing was dead that I could find. I have a bunch of bubblers going right now to try and create more aeration. The bleach smell in the hall where the tank is was bad enough to give me a headache when I walked in.
I'm not scolding you. I'm just telling you what I think, and if that truth hurts, I'm sorry. A diseased fish can die more easily and quicker than a healthy fish, when something does go wrong.Well technically I have 1 fish now. Everything else but the gem has passed. And although I appreciate the response you’re scolding is doing literally nothing to help with the issue. How does a disease cause a giant ammonia spike in an hour and how does a tank spike that much that fast? Overstocked or not?
Feel free to PM to discuss if you'd like, as to not clog up his post. It won't let me PM you for some reason.Well, then we have a disagreement.
Read the thread where folks demonstrated chemically that it does not work, then we can debate whether your results are evidence of it working, as opposed to them surviving anyway.
Does Prime actually "Detoxify" free ammonia, NH3?
This started when @Dan_P was looking at measuring NH3 with seneye and was curious about performance near zero NH3. I suggested trying Prime to artificially zero out the NH3 sensor, and the results were weird... so I checked with my seachem kit. Prime by Seachem is commonly used to treat tap...www.reef2reef.com
The unfortunate thing is with these things is that sometimes there is kind of a cascade effect - and sometimes things show effects at different rates. Can you do another measure of your ammonia, and pH and salinity?
Feel free to PM to discuss if you'd like, as to not clog up his post. It won't let me PM you for some reason.
if they are still open- they can recover. If they smell like they are dead (assuming you can lift them to the waters edge I would remove them. Generally - much of the time coral can come backIs there any way to save my corals that expelled the zooxanthelle or am I just screwed?
ammonia 0The unfortunate thing is with these things is that sometimes there is kind of a cascade effect - and sometimes things show effects at different rates. Can you do another measure of your ammonia, and pH and salinity?
Gonna leave them in then as long as I can and see. It hurts to see how far everything is set backif they are still open- they can recover. If they smell like they are dead (assuming you can lift them to the waters edge I would remove them. Generally - much of the time coral can come back
Nothing seemed sick though is the thing. Everything was eating great and looking great.I'm not scolding you. I'm just telling you what I think, and if that truth hurts, I'm sorry. A diseased fish can die more easily and quicker than a healthy fish, when something does go wrong.
That's ammonia kills qiuckNothing seemed sick though is the thing. Everything was eating great and looking great.
Update: saved the clowns, gem yang and the chromis and mandarin by removing them in a bucket with a heater and a ton of bubblers and they’re reviving a bit. The problem was that the prime I dosed took out the oxygen in the water.
Could bleach have splashed up and gotten in the tank? Or maybe into your ATO reservoir or sump? If it got into the ATO, that would explain how you got it down but it came back up. Just a thought, don't know your set up, though.I’ve done several large water changes but it’s not seeming to help. I’m not sure what this person did while cleaning the house. I checked the tank thoroughly and nothing was dead that I could find. I have a bunch of bubblers going right now to try and create more aeration. The bleach smell in the hall where the tank is was bad enough to give me a headache when I walked in.
Can you post a picture?Gonna leave them in then as long as I can and see. It hurts to see how far everything is set back
Agreed Prime would not do that, but am curious, why are you suspecting low O2? Bacterial bloom? You make a good point, Unless the ammonia level is closely monitored in the bucket, with even moderate feeding there could be problems. Since the OP has relatively normal parameters now, I would tend to put the remaining fish back in the tank (he has many fewer than he did before) - assuming that the ammonia in the tank remains low.Prime doesn't do that. Get yourself a good dissolved oxygen meter and test it yourself. A lot of the widely held "facts" in the hobby don't hold up when subject to actual testing.