The only reason I'm using it is to get rid of the cholorine in the water. I
used to sit buckets of water out for this to evaporate over a couple days
but the extreme temperature drop (with 50% water changes) when added to the
tank were detrimental to some sensitive fish I keep.

Dave


"Elaine T" wrote in message
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Dave@aquaflora wrote:
I have been recently using Aquarium Pharmacuticals "Stress coat" water
conditioner with weekly water changes. There has been an increase of
noticable algae in the aquarium not seen before. I have heard that some
of these conditioners while neutralizing chlorine and chloramine also
affect the water chemistry by adding phosphates and nitrates as a
bi-product? If so, doing PMDD already, I might be over-fertilizing.

Does anyone know if Aquarium Pharmacuticals conditioners do this?

Anyone's ideas?

Thanks
Dave.
Why are you using Stress Coat? It's never been shown to do anything for
healthy fish and actually degrades water quality (as you're seeing). Folks
have measured and the aloe vera extract increases DOC and conductivity.
I'm not surprised you have an algae bloom.

Go with AmQuel for chloramine or thiosulfate (Genesis is one) for chlorine
and avoid adding "slime coat enhancers" to your tank.

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