SeaChem Safe
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It's the exact same formula, nothing has changed. Please keep treating your water exactly as you have been, or you may risk ammonia exposure to your fish! (for those with chloramine)
The only thing that has changed is that in an attempt to dumb down the dosage instructions, Seachem decided to go with a less is more approach. I totally-totally-totally disagree with their corporate decision, this was a corp CYA move that should have never happened. I recently discussed this on the Seachem forum in a couple of threads, and later conversed in private with the President/CEO, of Seachem, Dr. Greg Morin. You can read more detailed info in the following links.
http://www.seachem.com/support/forums/showthread.php?t=7426
http://www.seachem.com/support/forums/showthread.php?t=7389
The only thing that has changed is that in an attempt to dumb down the dosage instructions, Seachem decided to go with a less is more approach. I totally-totally-totally disagree with their corporate decision, this was a corp CYA move that should have never happened. I recently discussed this on the Seachem forum in a couple of threads, and later conversed in private with the President/CEO, of Seachem, Dr. Greg Morin. You can read more detailed info in the following links.
http://www.seachem.com/support/forums/showthread.php?t=7426
http://www.seachem.com/support/forums/showthread.php?t=7389
And due to my discussion with Greg, they later came up with some new instructions on the Safe FAQ. See link below. Q: How can I calculate how much Safe™ to use if I know exactly how much chlorine, chloramine or ammonia is present in my water?
http://www.seachem.com/support/FAQs/Safe.html
I'm afraid the chemists at Seachem just don't get it. The largest customer base of this company has got to be the USA - which does not typically use the metric system! lol The container labels have teaspoons and gallons, and their website has grams and liters. If someone from Seachem reads this, wake the F up. This is exactly why your directions are confusing to the vast majority of the general public.
Pops - did you bother to read those two links? Pretty self explanatory isn't it?
http://www.seachem.com/support/FAQs/Safe.html
I'm afraid the chemists at Seachem just don't get it. The largest customer base of this company has got to be the USA - which does not typically use the metric system! lol The container labels have teaspoons and gallons, and their website has grams and liters. If someone from Seachem reads this, wake the F up. This is exactly why your directions are confusing to the vast majority of the general public.
Pops - did you bother to read those two links? Pretty self explanatory isn't it?
Pops - for anyone whose tap water is treated with chloramine, there will be a free ammonia (NH3) residual after each & every water change. Hence the reason why I spend the extra money for products such as Prime/Safe. (our water is treated with chloramine) If all I had to deal with was chlorine, I'd save my $$$ and buy sodium thiosulfate in bulk for a teeny tiny fraction of the cost of Prime/Safe.
So anyone that does have chloramine treated tap water, that reads the new & improved labels, better understand that using the new & improved instructions on their Safe containers will now only safely remove a portion of the chlorine AND free ammonia that it used to, using the old instructions.
Clear as mud?
IMO very poor decision on Seachems part. Apparently they are more worried about people overdosing and killing their fish from oxygen depletion, than they are by causing health issues from ammonia toxicity - which Greg compared to a mild sunburn. All I can say to that is WoW.
So anyone that does have chloramine treated tap water, that reads the new & improved labels, better understand that using the new & improved instructions on their Safe containers will now only safely remove a portion of the chlorine AND free ammonia that it used to, using the old instructions.
Clear as mud?
IMO very poor decision on Seachems part. Apparently they are more worried about people overdosing and killing their fish from oxygen depletion, than they are by causing health issues from ammonia toxicity - which Greg compared to a mild sunburn. All I can say to that is WoW.
