Seachem Pristine Aquarium Treatment, 500ml (001438)

Didnt lower my nitrates at all. I put it in several times

After. A few years of fish keeping and trying all kinds of addictives, I realized that Seachem was the best for me.

I recommend this for clearing up sludge in an aquarium, but Stability for quickly cycling.

I use a little less than half recommended bottle dosage every day of all seachem ferts (rotate days between trace and flourish complete). Also use online co2 calculator and use just below dose of co2 tank from 5 am to 5pm. Then I air stone at night. Slightly underused recommended fish food once or twice a day. I take no days off. 2/3rd water change and vacuum every 10 days. Perfect numbers and very slow minimal acceptable algae growth on walls to be hardly visibly noticeable. I created my own HOB power filter and pre-filter using a number of materials from amazon sources. I only clean the sponges and not the physical media, squeeze them out in the throw out water that comes out during water change. Aquarium maintenance 101 from a newbie. Use as little substrate as possible to keep plants alive to more easily avoid snails. Clean literally everything before putting into aquarium, better for it to die before going in aquarium than to introduce snails. Scrape the walls of algae at each waterchange. If you get snails, take literally everything out but fish and inverts, and soak it in a low ratio bleach plus water bath for like 20 minutes, this is the only way to kill all pest snails literally. Drain the water to just enough for the fish and inverts to swim and live, then scrub the entire aquarium with a scraper and take out literally anything you can see. Scrape again 3 times. Wipe it all down and make sure all there is you can see is the fish and inverts and clear water. Then wipe again. Add plenty of cycling bacteria from multiple sources you can find on amazon including seachem. Refill the aquarium with the bleach soaked plants decorations subtrate and filter medias. MAKE SURE YOU SOAK IN PLENTY OF DECHLORINATOR AND WATER FOR 20 MINUTES first. None of your plants should die off completely but they will lose and have killed a good amount of their leaves and roots but they should survive and regrow if you fert and change new water and quick cycle with added bacteria I truly hope this helps. My first year with a fully stocked nano tank has been a lot of time reading and experimenting. The pest snail battle was epic but Ive been free for 6 months completely. I win. Oh and didnt lose a fish or invert and plants are beyond original growth. This is with having done zero quarantining or adapting at any point. I also cycled from day one, no precycling. Use a 24 hour light with cycling phases and full K spectrum for plants. It is way easier and effective and worth the minor price increase over standard lights. And it is fun Also add Indian leaves and a UV filter Filter floss = crystal clear water. Chemical filtration is entirely unnecessary Have had no issues and made zero adjustments in six months everything has been clear and clean, green growth strong, living things have thrived. Electric heater w built in temperature control at 82 degrees for tropical fish and plants

Water clears up amazingly over night after 3 cap fulls for my 20 gallon.

The first time I used this product it caused my water to get cloudy instead of clear. I am guessing it was a bacterial bloom. After that cleared (3 days tops) up my water parameters are improved and the water is very clear. I purchased it hoping to bring down my nitrates. It seems to help me stretch a few more days between water changes. I am going to dose my nitrate reactor with this when I get it finished to see if that helps. My tap water is 40ppm from the tap from agricultural run off. I live in the middle of a 100 acre farm in a rural area that has a well. I also have a small rena canister filter with some purigen and matrix and an HOB with matrix and purigen. I have a 29 gallon FW tank, 15 plants but they are still small so I will be heavily planted in the future. From my experience anything from Seachem is worth trying. I love all their products.

This definitely helps keep the gravel and glass cleaner in my overstocked 75 gal community aquarium. I ran out for a couple of weeks and noticed a huge difference in the cleanliness of my aquarium.

This product works really good. Unfortunately this cannot arrive while. This was my second attempt to get this product and both had leaked during transit. In this picture, my finger shows were the fluids top is in the bottle. Also, you can see the damage to the labels from leakage. Ive received other liquids, even other seachem products, undamaged. Dont k OB why I keep receiving open, leaking shipments of pristine.

Can go wrong with Seachem... Appears to increase the tank cycle time.

I stand by this company and their products are superior