Seachem Pristine Aquarium Treatment, 500ml (001438)

I use a little less than half recommended bottle dosage every day of all seachem ferts (rotate days between trace and flourish complete). Also use online co2 calculator and use just below dose of co2 tank from 5 am to 5pm. Then I air stone at night. Slightly underused recommended fish food once or twice a day. I take no days off. 2/3rd water change and vacuum every 10 days. Perfect numbers and very slow minimal acceptable algae growth on walls to be hardly visibly noticeable. I created my own HOB power filter and pre-filter using a number of materials from amazon sources. I only clean the sponges and not the physical media, squeeze them out in the throw out water that comes out during water change. Aquarium maintenance 101 from a newbie. Use as little substrate as possible to keep plants alive to more easily avoid snails. Clean literally everything before putting into aquarium, better for it to die before going in aquarium than to introduce snails. Scrape the walls of algae at each waterchange. If you get snails, take literally everything out but fish and inverts, and soak it in a low ratio bleach plus water bath for like 20 minutes, this is the only way to kill all pest snails literally. Drain the water to just enough for the fish and inverts to swim and live, then scrub the entire aquarium with a scraper and take out literally anything you can see. Scrape again 3 times. Wipe it all down and make sure all there is you can see is the fish and inverts and clear water. Then wipe again. Add plenty of cycling bacteria from multiple sources you can find on amazon including seachem. Refill the aquarium with the bleach soaked plants decorations subtrate and filter medias. MAKE SURE YOU SOAK IN PLENTY OF DECHLORINATOR AND WATER FOR 20 MINUTES first. None of your plants should die off completely but they will lose and have killed a good amount of their leaves and roots but they should survive and regrow if you fert and change new water and quick cycle with added bacteria I truly hope this helps. My first year with a fully stocked nano tank has been a lot of time reading and experimenting. The pest snail battle was epic but I've been free for 6 months completely. I win. Oh and didn't lose a fish or invert and plants are beyond original growth. This is with having done zero quarantining or adapting at any point. I also cycled from day one, no precycling. Use a 24 hour light with cycling phases and full K spectrum for plants. It is way easier and effective and worth the minor price increase over standard lights. And it is fun Also add Indian leaves and a UV filter Filter floss = crystal clear water. Chemical filtration is entirely unnecessary Have had no issues and made zero adjustments in six months everything has been clear and clean, green growth strong, living things have thrived. Electric heater w built in temperature control at 82 degrees for tropical fish and plants

WHOA! So happy with this product. And all of Seachem products!! This pristine is amazing! I overdosed Seachem Stability when I started my tank. It wasn't realy intentional. It was just because the dose for a 5 gallon is 1.25ml which is 1/4 a cap of Stability. I put it in more like 1/2 cap because. Well, I have a betta. Betta's have small bioloads. So the bacteria was just accumulating way faster than ammonia and nitrite were accumulating....this caused a very very thick biofilm. And before my cycle caught up with the bacteria....i was dealing with a very thick biofilm. I knew it would go away as my cycle progressed. And it did. However, that biofilm fell to the gravel as snow. So when I would do water changes that would get kicked up....just fly around the tank....it was bad. So I added pristine. I had talked to Seachem and they told me to wait on adding Pristine until my nitrifying bacteria were established. I waited. Then I added pristine. The bacteria went to work....but man oh man i could literally see the bacteria eating away at the biofilm sediment, my entire tank went hazy....almost like a ribbon of fog was running through it. This was very very worrisome. Pristine actually made my tank cloudy at first....it took about 48 hours to see results. i added it on a friday morning....and it wasn't until sunday night i came home and saw the results. WHOA....it's CLEAR! I am SO HAPPY!!!!! part of me really wanted to think i had screwed something up. I just had this horribly dread i was going to have to do a 100% water change and start over....but that wasn't the case! I just needed to be patient. I am so impressed!!!! I love Seachem. And all of their products. I trust them 100%. And their customer service is amazing! If you need anything just email them from their website. I LOVE PRISTINE!!! UPDATE: So i am still happy with this product. Gravel vacuuming is definitely easier. But i like to give my mystery snail zucchini. I typically leave a single piece in the tank for 24 hours before removing it....i'll remove it and not add another piece for another 24 hours or so...the first time i did this after I'd established the Pristine bacteria into my tank...i went to bed with an absolutely crystal clear aquarium. the next morning i woke up and it was super cloudy! it was obviously a bacterial bloom. and i immediately suspected the pristine reacting to the zucchini. so i emailed Seachem and explained what was going on....and they wrote back and told me that it was indeed the zucchini. i've removed the zucchini. but it's been 36 hours and a 50% water change and the bloom is just now subsiding. i am not going to downgrade my review....zucchini is organic and that is exactly what this product is supposed to do. break down organics. so if you're going to be throwing in large amounts of fresh veggies for snails or invertebrates i would just keep this in mind. i think i'll still feed my snail veggies...but it will not stay in the tank for more than a couple of hours.

Excelente producto

Seacham has fantastic products and I do my best to stay with all the same company products for my tank❣️

I feel like this stuff is working but very slowly. Happy with purchase arrived fast in no damage. Fish look healthy after use

Works exactly as intended and especially useful for serious aquarium enthusiasts. Just let the heterotrophic bacteria do the work and be patient as it takes about a week. Worth the price. Crystal clear water.

Great to keep water clear!

Works great and quick! Will definitely buy again.

Better than the best

Llego rapido, producto genial.

Pristine really helps boost bacteria and reduce gunk in the water. I used this after a small ammonia spike and within two days the tank looked way clearer and got rid of the ammonia levels, It smells like sulphur when dosing, which is normal but strong. Pairing this with Stability works well, especially in planted tanks. Just shake it hard before use. ✔ Pros: • Improves water clarity quickly • Supports beneficial bacteria • Good for post-clean or filter change ❌ Cons: • Smell is intense • Needs regular use to keep results Tip: Dose it at night with the lights off, fish seem calmer and the smell fades faster.

No issues

Is helping get my fish well will stain things blue so use over a cloth or rag