ArtesiaWells
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I understand that the widely accepted way to dose with this excellent dechlorinator/conditioner known as Seachem Prime is to add it to the new incoming fresh water BEFORE it's added to the tank -- however, I do my water changes the old fashioned way with a five-gallon bucket, an Aqueon gravel cleaning syphon tube and multiple trips back and forth from the tank to the bathtub and vice-versa. When I do a 50% water change weekly, being that I am using a five-gallon bucket, it takes me SIX trips from the tank to the tub to dump that 50% (the tank is a 60-gallon, so half of that is 30 gallons, which is SIX trips with the FIVE GALLON bucket). What I normally do -- and Seachem customer service advised me this was okay -- is once the 50-percent of the water is out of the tank, I pour in a CAPFUL of Prime plus ONE RUNG on the cap worth, based on the dosing instructions on the bottle (one cap is good for 50 U.S. gallons, so I add one cap plus one rung on the cap "screw" marks inside to equal the amount to treat 60 gallons with; again, Seachem confirmed this for me) directly into the tank and THEN begin filling it back up with fresh, cool tap water...
I haven't seemingly had any "ammonia" or "toxic metals poisoning" in the tank where I lost any goldies doing the Prime this way, and all seems okay afterwards, but I was just curious if this was alright to do...is it a MUST that Prime is added to EACH BUCKETFUL of new water that is going back into the tank...or can I keep doing it the way I'm doing, adding the Prime before the new water goes in? It seems that it would be a bit wasteful and daunting to add Prime to EACH bucketful of return fresh water...
I haven't seemingly had any "ammonia" or "toxic metals poisoning" in the tank where I lost any goldies doing the Prime this way, and all seems okay afterwards, but I was just curious if this was alright to do...is it a MUST that Prime is added to EACH BUCKETFUL of new water that is going back into the tank...or can I keep doing it the way I'm doing, adding the Prime before the new water goes in? It seems that it would be a bit wasteful and daunting to add Prime to EACH bucketful of return fresh water...