When you guys use Seachem safe do you get a very strong sulfur/ rotten egg smell? If so how to you guys deal with it? All comments welcome.
Seachem safe
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It took me a few times to accept the smell.Perfectly normal.
You could buy a chemical mask from hardware store.
I've been using it over 4 years now. I'll never buy Seachem Prime ever again.
Last longer.
Less expensive and can treat more gallons than Seachem Prime.
Yup, the smell is real!
When I had three 125gal tanks going doing water changes every three days I would use a liter of Prime a month. When I switched to Safe,I got a 25 dollar bottle of it. It laster me three years and was still half full when I sold it with the tanks.
Soon enough your nose won't register the smell of it, since you smell it so often. That how it was for me.
When I had three 125gal tanks going doing water changes every three days I would use a liter of Prime a month. When I switched to Safe,I got a 25 dollar bottle of it. It laster me three years and was still half full when I sold it with the tanks.
Soon enough your nose won't register the smell of it, since you smell it so often. That how it was for me.
This was 2.2 pounds treats 240,000 US gallons. I've had this bottle over 3 years. 
I use 2-3 scoops per 5 gallons of water
with that little scoop in pic. That's my little finger for comparison.
I use 2-3 scoops per 5 gallons of water
with that little scoop in pic. That's my little finger for comparison.
The container definitely has a strong sulphur smell, but I don't notice it in the tank afterwards.
How tiny is that scoop? My tank I use a heaping 1/16tsp, because according to the instructions the dosage is 1/12th but I don't have a 1/12 tsp That's for a 120(ish) gallon tank
I was also gonna say something about that as well. For my 125s the dosage was somewhere like 3/32