Preventive Maintenance

[homedweller]

I have a 55 gallon community tank and my LFS suggests that I add 30-40 drops
per week of AQURI-SOL to prevent disease, etc. Is this a common practice?

[Dinky]

"homedweller" > wrote in message
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| I have a 55 gallon community tank and my LFS suggests that I add
30-40 drops
| per week of AQURI-SOL to prevent disease, etc. Is this a common
practice?
|
|
|

In my experience, a healthy aquarium should not need chemicals of any
kind to keep it that way. However, in their defense, I've never used
that product, so use your own judgment.


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[Graham Broadbridge]

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> "homedweller" > wrote in message
> ...
> | I have a 55 gallon community tank and my LFS suggests that I add
> 30-40 drops
> | per week of AQURI-SOL to prevent disease, etc. Is this a common
> practice?

> In my experience, a healthy aquarium should not need chemicals of any
> kind to keep it that way. However, in their defense, I've never used
> that product, so use your own judgment.

Well, it may need some additional fertilizers for the plants. I've no idea
what the purpose of AQURI-SOL is.

Graham.

[Eric Schreiber]

Graham Broadbridge wrote:

> Well, it may need some additional fertilizers for the plants. I've
> no idea what the purpose of AQURI-SOL is.

Aquari-Sol is made by "Aquarium Products", and according to the bottle
is "Effective treatment for: Ick, Protozoan Parasites, & Velvet". The
listed active ingredient is "Soluble Copper Salts", which is rather
vague.

I'm with Dinky - I can't imagine a valid reason to add chemicals to a
healthy tank on a weekly basis.


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[Ali Day]

"Eric Schreiber" <eric at ericschreiber dot com> wrote in message
...
> Graham Broadbridge wrote:
>
> > Well, it may need some additional fertilizers for the plants. I've
> > no idea what the purpose of AQURI-SOL is.
>
> Aquari-Sol is made by "Aquarium Products", and according to the bottle
> is "Effective treatment for: Ick, Protozoan Parasites, & Velvet". The
> listed active ingredient is "Soluble Copper Salts", which is rather
> vague.
>
> I'm with Dinky - I can't imagine a valid reason to add chemicals to a
> healthy tank on a weekly basis.

I can if I were an unscrupulous LFS trying to make money.

A

[Dick]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:44:32 +1000, "Graham Broadbridge"
> wrote:

>"Dinky" > wrote in message
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>> "homedweller" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> | I have a 55 gallon community tank and my LFS suggests that I add
>> 30-40 drops
>> | per week of AQURI-SOL to prevent disease, etc. Is this a common
>> practice?
>
>> In my experience, a healthy aquarium should not need chemicals of any
>> kind to keep it that way. However, in their defense, I've never used
>> that product, so use your own judgment.
>
>Well, it may need some additional fertilizers for the plants. I've no idea
>what the purpose of AQURI-SOL is.
>
>Graham.
>

If you get a good balance of fish, plants and lights, do weekly water
changes and if you have your tank temperature held at the right
temperature, it is very low maintenance. If you go for more exotic
fish or plants then things change.

Since you say nothing about your tank fish and plant population it is
hard to generalize.

[NetMax]

"homedweller" > wrote in message
...
> I have a 55 gallon community tank and my LFS suggests that I add 30-40
drops
> per week of AQURI-SOL to prevent disease, etc. Is this a common
practice?

Horrible advice imo. Aquarisol is an anti-parasitic. Why would you
continuously dose an anti-parasitic into a closed environment (which has
zero chance of getting a new parasite, until you add a new fish). That's
worst than a human taking anti-biotics like vitamins.

Then there is the accumulation of the water soluble copper in the water.
Copper is extremely toxic to aquatic life, which is why it kills
parasites at a low dosage. As the dosage accumulates, higher life forms
(snail, shrimp, fish) become effected. Any fish book will verify that
copper is the most toxic mineral aquarists should be concerned about.

If you follow a regular weekly water changing routine, you might dilute
the effects of the copper at a rate which keeps it at a safe level, but
it doesn't make any sense to add medicine on an ongoing basis to a
healthy tank. I shudder at the advice LFSs sometimes give out.

I have used Aquarisol as an Ich preventative when I get a new delivery,
but mostly I just use it as net sterilizer, ymmv.
NetMax

[TYNK 7]

>Subject: Preventive Maintenance
>From: "homedweller"
>Date: 4/15/2004 10:21 PM Central Daylight Time
>Message-id: >
>
>I have a 55 gallon community tank and my LFS suggests that I add 30-40 drops
>per week of AQURI-SOL to prevent disease, etc. Is this a common practice?
>

Personally, I won't, nor do I recommend, treating with medications when they
aren't needed.
That would be like treating a child's head of hair for lice weekly.....just in
case, because they go to school where other children are present.