:-) And we have a beautiful bridge in Brooklyn. I can get you in on the
ground floor for shares in it, too.
>
> They say Prime should be 8.3 pH - mine is 3.4 pH -
> Seachem have suggested perhaps that I have
> contaminated the Prime source with tank water via the
> pipette they provide (not so as I decant into
> measuring cylinder only used for Prime) or I leave the
> bottle open (again not so for more than 60 seconds).
> And foil seal on bottle was intact on purchase.
>
> Anyway my Prime was off !! Makes one wonder ....
Not me. We get paranoid about a little Trojan Horse getting into our
confuser, but the retail channel for fish products is truly insecure. The
first reaction is to *always* blame the customer, unfortunately, and we let
them get away with it!
Just a few months ago, we had a local case, right here in Hayward. A big
chain pet store sold Amquel to a newby. His fish were dying unexpectedly. I
tested his bottle on our normal chloramined water and then my own bottle,
that I get by mail order from the source.
It was obvious that he had been sold plain water. It had *no* effect on the
chloramine, at any concentration. The manufacturer and distributor got
totally defensive, so we never learned if a store clerk was stealing Amquel,
or if there was a manufacturing goof up. The fish were just as dead, either
way.
Wright
PS. [By personal communication] The reason J. F. Kuhns rejected the
ingredient used in Prime, when he developed Amquel, was the instability of
that material. My experience is very limited with Prime, but I tend to
suspect it of being much less stable than some others. No way I plan a full
test on *my* fish.
-- Wright Huntley, Fremont CA, USA, 510 494-8679 huntleyone at home dot comImportant things we should remember: [and weren't taught in mandatory government propaganda camps]
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
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