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Chinadog · Jan 18, 2015

I went to buy some Aquasafe yesterday but picked up the wrong bottle by mistake and ended up with a product called Easybalance instead. I read the label before I swapped it and couldn't believe my eyes, it claims to replace the need for any water changes...for six months! Surely it can't be healthy for fish to be swimming round in their own waste, even if Easybalance does what it claims? I don't know about anybody else, as a kid learning how to keep an aquarium the importance of water changes was hammered in to me as one of the golden rules of fishkeeping.
If it's too much effort to lug a few buckets of water once in a while then maybe fishkeeping in general isn't for you?
I'm interested to hear what others think about it.

Stupot1610 · Jan 18, 2015

Chinadog said:
I went to buy some Aquasafe yesterday but picked up the wrong bottle by mistake and ended up with a product called Easybalance instead. I read the label before I swapped it and couldn't believe my eyes, it claims to replace the need for any water changes...for six months! Surely it can't be healthy for fish to be swimming round in their own waste, even if Easybalance does what it claims? I don't know about anybody else, as a kid learning how to keep an aquarium the importance of water changes was hammered in to me as one of the golden rules of fishkeeping.
If it's too much effort to lug a few buckets of water once in a while then maybe fishkeeping in general isn't for you?
I'm interested to hear what others think about it.

I used to add this stuff to my tropical fish tanks when I was breeding livebearers, however, I used it to help to keep the water clean for say 6 weeks between water changes. I wouldn't even think of leaving a fishtank uncleaned for six months! Water changes were definitely one of the things that were said to be most important when I started up with fish.
Personally, I actually quite enjoy water changes. It gives me a chance to change things around in the tank (and stops me being lazy and just sitting around, lol).

Stuart

sde · Jan 18, 2015

That is honestly kind of comical. And no, it isn't that big of a deal to haul some bucket every week.

If it's too much effort to lug a few buckets of water once in a while then maybe fishkeeping in general isn't for you?

Agreed.

Chinadog · Jan 18, 2015

I know, if sombody was telling me about this product before I'd seen it I'd swear they were pulling my leg!

jAfFa CaKe · Jan 19, 2015

I have seen this stuff before and used it on a guppy tank. I tested the water, and the nitrates were gone! I tested the water a week later... And there were toxic levels of the stuff. It appears to just hide it from test kits.

UglytheAxolotl · Jan 20, 2015

What is in it?

Coastal Groovin · Jan 20, 2015

Water changes every 6 weeks with fish or Amphibians? You need to do that every week. Unless you have live plants and you can go every 2-3 weeks depending on tank size and bio load. There is no substitute for regular water changes.

Chinadog · Jan 20, 2015

It doesn't help having entry level aquarium books that often describe nitrate as harmless. Ok, it doesn't kill things stone dead like ammonia will, but in my experience raising baby angel fish and other Cichlids, it will stunt growth and also seems to act as an appetite suppressant.
I don't know about newt species, but the axolotls I had seemed even less tolerant of it than most fish I've kept. Outbreaks of gill fungus were usually a sign that I'd let water quality slip and almost always cleared up on their own once things were back to normal.

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