Amquel and nitrate

[wooden_reefer]

I have only used Amquel against ammonia, not nitrate or nitrite.

On the bottle, it says that it will remove or stablize nitrite and nitrate.

Why is your experience of this?

 

[Agu]

I've only used Amquel once, many years ago to try to stop a tank crash from the eradication of flatworms with malachite green. That was before Flatwom Exit was available and before malachite green was banned in the US as a potentially toxic agent.

As I recall Amquel invalidates the test results for most ammonia tests. I would suspect the same is true for nitrite and nitrate tests. If they say it's so without an accurate test you have no choice but to believe their claims.

FWIW my tank survived, Amquel may have been a factor, or it could have been the three 40 gallon water changes I did on my 180 in 24 hours

 

[Crowed]

Companies will write anything for better selling. I dnt belive that you can put anaerobic bacteria in the bottle, not together with aerobic bacteria, thats for sure. Their claims that it will stabilise or remove nitrate, meaning that nitrate comes from ammonia and when you remove it, you also remove no3 threat what might occur later.

 

[wooden_reefer]

I am sorry;

It is Amquel Plus, new and improved.

It has quantitative info, thus making it more credible at the first glance.

 

[lostintheocean]

the red bottle by seachem works better, i forget what its called, i used to use it before i had ro. it goes way farther then amaquel but does the same thing

 

[ackee]

Prime.

 

[betoballer1]

prime works better..

 

[Indermark]

prime is much more concentrated and I would trust it better than amquel personally. One capfull of amquel does 10 gallons. Once cap of seachem does 50 gallons and you can dose five times over the recommended amount.

 

[benzreef]

I have years of xp with Amquel, Amquel +. I believe one dose removed 13ppm Nitrate from SW if I recall. I have used it on a large system to help bring down the nitrate between water changes in the past and have seen it quickly deplete the oxygen levels. Keep everything well aerated and there should be no problem. FWIW I would only use it if nitrate levels are below 20ish. nothing beats a water change

 

[crawfish in tx]

if my nitrate level was below 20 i would not eed to use it