SerranidTerror
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Ok so I got another new product that may be of interest for you guys. Its called lifeguard (not to be confused with the filtration system.). What is it? Its our new broad spectrum medication.
I don't think this will be of too much interest to you guys as you guys seem to run healthy tanks pretty frequently! *Knocks on wood for everyone*
First off you'll actually see two different packages for it. One has the jungle label and the other instant ocean label. I can't discuss more about this subject atm so we'll leave it at 2 different labels. One for fresh and one for salt.
So what does this stuff treat? Well the claim is anything external it will nuke. This includes anything bacterial, viral, fungal, or parasitic. And of course i'm not going to leave here without telling you the active ingredient. Its marketing name is Haloshield. The chemical itself is 1-chloro-2,2,5,5-tetramethyl-4-imidazolidinone. Unfortunately I am no chemist so I have a tough time fending off the "its just stabilized chlorine" comments. Dr. Tim Hovanec had a tough time explaining to us in layman's terms what a halamine is and why this isn't just "chlorine." So sorry guys I can't jump in on chem debates!
Is it reef safe...thats the question of course. As one who admires the club members' reef tanks i'd be very reluctant to suggest it. (We should be putting fish in a q tank anyway
) We are selling it as not reef safe b/c there were mixed results during the testing period. More specifically here is the short story of what happened. In a "reef tank," not really- it had live rock and some inverts...no corals or anenomes, there seemed to be no apparent problems- I think maaaaybe the pink and purple corraline alage may have lost a little color. However in a bare glass tank it was melting sea stars. :eek1: Sooooo its being sold as not reef safe. Basically since there was little bacteria and other lower level organisms for Haloshield to take care of it went to the next best thing I suppose. (BTW if used in a main tank please not beneficial bacteria count will be reduced slightly.)
For anyone with a freshwater tank. It was tested on loaches and they seemed to be ok. However b/c we want to be conservative with the product both fresh and saltwater meds have "do not use with scaleless fish." I will keep you posted on this as I think one of my stores in VA was treating a sick lionfish. For anyone with a planted freshwater tank great news...it is plant safe!
One other interesting thing about this product. It will be readily taken out by activated carbon or neutralized using a water conditoner. Kinda cool I guess. Oh and to my knowledge DO levels should not drop during treatment.
Didn't think this would be too useful to you guys but at least you can see whats new from us. I have however been receiving some rave reviews on tihs product from stores who have used this themselves. One store did treat a tank and didnt realize a sea cucumber was in there. It seemed to have survived the treatment...which was cool. (Sorry didnt get a species on that cuke.)
I don't think this will be of too much interest to you guys as you guys seem to run healthy tanks pretty frequently! *Knocks on wood for everyone*
First off you'll actually see two different packages for it. One has the jungle label and the other instant ocean label. I can't discuss more about this subject atm so we'll leave it at 2 different labels. One for fresh and one for salt.
So what does this stuff treat? Well the claim is anything external it will nuke. This includes anything bacterial, viral, fungal, or parasitic. And of course i'm not going to leave here without telling you the active ingredient. Its marketing name is Haloshield. The chemical itself is 1-chloro-2,2,5,5-tetramethyl-4-imidazolidinone. Unfortunately I am no chemist so I have a tough time fending off the "its just stabilized chlorine" comments. Dr. Tim Hovanec had a tough time explaining to us in layman's terms what a halamine is and why this isn't just "chlorine." So sorry guys I can't jump in on chem debates!
Is it reef safe...thats the question of course. As one who admires the club members' reef tanks i'd be very reluctant to suggest it. (We should be putting fish in a q tank anyway
) We are selling it as not reef safe b/c there were mixed results during the testing period. More specifically here is the short story of what happened. In a "reef tank," not really- it had live rock and some inverts...no corals or anenomes, there seemed to be no apparent problems- I think maaaaybe the pink and purple corraline alage may have lost a little color. However in a bare glass tank it was melting sea stars. :eek1: Sooooo its being sold as not reef safe. Basically since there was little bacteria and other lower level organisms for Haloshield to take care of it went to the next best thing I suppose. (BTW if used in a main tank please not beneficial bacteria count will be reduced slightly.)For anyone with a freshwater tank. It was tested on loaches and they seemed to be ok. However b/c we want to be conservative with the product both fresh and saltwater meds have "do not use with scaleless fish." I will keep you posted on this as I think one of my stores in VA was treating a sick lionfish. For anyone with a planted freshwater tank great news...it is plant safe!
One other interesting thing about this product. It will be readily taken out by activated carbon or neutralized using a water conditoner. Kinda cool I guess. Oh and to my knowledge DO levels should not drop during treatment.
Didn't think this would be too useful to you guys but at least you can see whats new from us. I have however been receiving some rave reviews on tihs product from stores who have used this themselves. One store did treat a tank and didnt realize a sea cucumber was in there. It seemed to have survived the treatment...which was cool. (Sorry didnt get a species on that cuke.)
