What are AmGuard’s Ingredients?

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I know what it is but I was wondering if I can accidentally overdose it? I’m wondering because I just stirred up my sand bed and I’d like to dose some as a precaution. Is it beneficial bacteria? Is it safe for inverts like starfish? I’m not finding a lot of info online.
 
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I ask because I was picking worms out of my sand and stirred it up lol and I just want to keep a possible mini ammonia spike down but like not significant enough to do a water change and I just did one Monday.
 

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AmGuard treats ammonia. If your test is fine, why add a chemicals that’s not needed? All it does is bind ammonia. Nothing else. no benificial bacteria

how old is the sand bed/tank? How large of a tank is it? Other then Cloudy- how are the fish acting?

Also- other then Fish and inverts- do you keep corals?
 
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AmGuard treats ammonia. If your test is fine, why add a chemicals that’s not needed? All it does is bind ammonia. Nothing else.

how old is the sand bed/tank? How large of a tank is it? Other the. Cloudy- how are the fish acting?
Oh okay good point. Everything is fine lol. I reached out to Seachmen to see if I could get some answers. I just happened to stir up my sand and know very well my levels may go up. It’s happened before. The tank is 20 gallons and a few months old.
 
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A few months old sand- shouldn’t have a massive amount of the nasties yet. You should be good my friend. It will clear up by tomorrow.
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Seachem doesn’t identify ingredients that I have seen, but at least it hints that it is different than their other ammonia product, Prime.

It might be hydroxymethanesulfonate, which is a common ammonia binder in the hobby.

Personally, I suggest a strong amount of skepticism on Prime and it’s claims which seem unsupported by experimental testing. Whether those concerns extend to Amguard, I do not know.
 

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FWIW, here's a thread on Seachem Prime testing and whether it actually accomplishes ammonia binding the way Seachem claims:

 

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Prime and Amguard are grouped together in their more detailed SDS.
 

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