Features:

  • Contains one (1) API TAP WATER CONDITIONER Aquarium Water Conditioner 16-Ounce Bottle
  • Neutralizes chlorine, chloramines and other chemicals to make tap water safe for fish
  • Prevents tap water chemicals from causing gill destruction, tissue irritation and fish death
  • Super strength, high concentration formula
  • Use when adding or changing water and when adding new fish to freshwater and saltwater aquariums
USE THIS TO CLEAN CHLORINE FROM YOUR SWIMSUIT----really works!

thanks to the Amazon reviewer who mentioned this! I swim 5x week and usually my suits last about 2 months. I decant this to a small 5 oz squeeze bottle and leave the rest in the fridge. 4-5 squirts in a sink of water, soak my suit 10 min, wring out and hang to dry. We're on six months with the same suit and it still looks great- no chlorine damage at all. Beats the heck out of those expensive suit cleaners. This is the swimmers friend!

Swimmers Try This

I didn't purchase this for an aquarium. I wanted to see if it would take the chlorine out of my swimsuit. I first rinse the suit in cold water, then add about 5 or so drops of the API to a small basin of water, swish the suit around and let soak for a couple of minutes. Then rinse in clean tap water. I am amazed that there is very very little chlorine smell in the suit after rinsing with this product. I hope it makes the swimsuit last longer.

A “Must-Have” for larger tanks

This is a pretty standard product, that does its job. If you have a larger aquarium, this is a good purchase, as it only takes a few mL for a large amount of water, instead of using half a bottle of conditioner every water change. The bottle has two sets of directions; one to remove chlorine and heavy metals (1mL/15gal) and one to detoxify chloramines (3mL/15gal). It was a bit confusing at first deciding which directions to follow, but I errored on the side of caution and went with 2mL/15gal, and I’ve yet to see any issues with chemistry or fish health. As others have said, you need to keep this out of direct sunlight, and away from heat sources as it will foul. I keep mine in the cabinet below the tank, and several months later is doing just fine.

Substitute Summer Solutions regarding care of swimsuits

Ok - for the past 3 years, I have been using Summer Solutions to rinse out the chlorine smell and better preserve my swim team child's suits. I read another review for this product saying they were using API for this purpose. API is 16 oz for about $7 vs SS at 8 oz for about $10 = definitely API is cheaper. As far as usage, I use 1 capfull of SS each time (not the 2 that's recommended). For API, I am using 1/2 capfull. I have been using API on his suits for 3 weeks now and so far so good. The chlorine smell is removed and suits look the same as before I started using (granted only 3 weeks so for, but at 3x/week, its a good start). I do an additional rinse of the product after soaking (don't know if necessary or not, but I choose to) which is an extra step vs no rinsing needed for SS, but I certainly don't mind for the $$ savings.

Novice fish owner approved

I’m a first time fish owner and was terrified of setting up/cleaning a tank. When I found out it would cost $120 to have a professional clean the aquarium for the 2 goldfish we won at a carnival, I decided to do my best and hope to not kill our fish. Initially this was used as a sample packet came with our aquarium. It didn’t kill the fish or cause any problems with the water so I stuck with it. Now our fish have grown and we’ve added live plants. With our minimalist decor and Florida humidity, the aquarium requires a weekly cleaning so having a larger bottle of this product is handy. We are going on 6 months with our fair fish and haven’t had to combat any troubles with managing their habitat.

it does what it is supposed to.

The only issue I have with this stuff is that it can be hard for small water changes. I have a 55 gallon tank, a 6 gallon and a 4 gallon. I usually do a 5 gallon water change biweekly in the big tank and a few gallons in the others. You use 1ml for 20 gallons or 5ml for 30 gallons. To do a 5 gallon or less I try to just get a small few drops. My dosing is not to accurate, but I am hoping that too much won't be bad. So on the good side this bottle will last you for a very long time! and I have not had any fresh water fish die or frogs. If you are doing small water changes you might want to get a eye dropper or something.

Works great and fast.

I use it for freshwater aquariums. I started out with precise measurements of the quantity of product to the gallons of water and prepared the water in a separate bucket before pouring it in the tank. Now I just pour about a half capful into the aquarium while adding water directly from the garden hose in when doing the maintenance of changing about half the water (+-18 gallons from a 36 gallon tank and +-8 gallons from a 20 gallon tank). The product must work very quickly because I've never lost a fish during the water changes and they don't seemed stressed (fast gill movement).

Removes chlorine from bathing suits

I swim 3 times a week and was looking for a product to remove chlorine from my bathing suits. After reading reviews for more expensive products, I decided to try this (even though it’s intended for aquarium water). This product meets my needs. After swimming, I simply add 1 capful of this product to a sink full of cool water and swish my bathing suit for a minute or two. No need to rinse. The chlorine smell is gone from my bathing suit, which I believe means that the chlorine is gone, too. I am replacing my bathing suits much less frequently since I started using this product. I highly recommend it.

Treats Lots of Water

No fish in my tank yet, so I don't know how well it works, but my moss seems happy with this water treatment. I agree with others, it would be nice to know how much to add to smaller tanks and maybe have a small eyedropper to put it into the tank. The lid works, but it doesn't seem very precise for smaller amounts. This conditioner works on chlorine and chlorides, which a few don't. That's a definite plus since many municipal water places are using the more dangerous chlorides to kill germs. The bottle I received doesn't expire for a long time which is nice, and it will treat lots of gallons.

The best value for tap water treament

I love all of the API products, especially their easy to use test kits. This product is great as well. Regardless of which size you buy of their tap water conditioner, it is the best value of reputable brands that will treat all tap water for your pond or tank. It only requires 3 drops per gallon you add to your tank. It removes chlorine, neutralizes chloramines, and helps detoxify any heavy metals in your tap water. Some more expensive products will claim to also include things to help your fish maintain their protective slime coating (and cure male pattern baldness and perhaps ED). If your fish are healthy, and your tank's water parameters are maintained well through weekly water changes and good filtration, those other ingredients are useless. (The "Special Sauce" is just ketchup, mayonnaise, and relish.) If your fish have sores or other health problems, then find the cause, fix it, and treat them with something besides a tap water conditioner if needed. Like every other tap water treatment API's instructions first tell you an amount of the product required to remove chlorine, and then in smaller print below say to use 2 to 3 times as much to also neutralize the more toxic chloramines that may be added during the purification of your water. I don't know why the companies that make these products won't be honest and say up front to use the higher amount, and then in small print say you can skimp and use less if you want to save money and risk the health of your fish. If you have confirmed with your local water authority that they do not use chloramines during their treatment or your water, then it only requires a single drop per gallon to remove chlorine. I did not bother to call my county water authority, since I had no way to confirm that the person who answered the phone would know chlorine, chloramine, nor chloroform for that matter. from their own colon or a hole in the ground. Even if you personally spoke to someone that could tell you for dead certain that chloramines are not being used, they are not going to text you if that changes in the future. Unless you are the person in charge of that step of water treatment for your area, the only way to know for certain if your water was safe for your fish with only a single drop per gallon, is if you use one drop, then test that water for any detectable ammonia that is the treated water. The chloramines contain a small amount of ammonia. Then you would know it was safe to add to your tank without causing them irritation and inflammation of their gill tissue. It is much safer to simply to add 3 drops per gallon. More doesn't hurt anything, but it's just wasted. To refill my tanks, I keep a pair of 5 gallon plastic bottles that were used for filtered / spring water. After I fill my tanks, I add the tap water treatment to the jug, refill it, and let it sit until I need it. This allows the conditioner time for its anti-heavy metal ingredients to work fully. It also lets the water come to room temperature, since 5 gallons of icy cold tap water in winter can cause the temp to drop in a 55 gallon tank. Perhaps more importantly, the water lines in many places are old and require frequent repairs or expansion. When repairs are made to water mains, they sometimes add extra chlorine disinfectant at the repair site to insure that any bacteria that might have gotten introduced to the main are killed and cannot grow and contaminate our drinking water. While I cannot normally detect a smell of chlorine in my tap water, I occasionally notice that it smells a bit more like a swimming pool than tap water. If more chlorine than normal is in the tap water, then more neutralizer would be needed. Most Chlorine will gas off on its own if the tap water is left uncovered for 24 hours, but Chloramine will not. When they disinfect a repair site, they are normally only using chlorine. By leaving the water I will add to my tank sitting for at least a day, then I am positive that it is always safe to add to my tank. I have had people ask me before if they can add the conditioner to the tank and then use a water hose to refill their tank. I don't normally recommend this because many of our fish are conditioned to come to the part of the tank where we are standing and adding water, because they think food will soon be added as well. If you add the conditioner to the tanks water rather than to the tap water first, then the tap water from a hose will take a short while to react with the treatment additive. Temporary short spikes of chlorine won't kill your fish, but cumulatively over time, it's not good for them either. Also unless you have a hose that is certified safe for drinking from, it can leach harmful chemicals into the water you're adding to the tank. If you are using a normal garden hose to refill your tank after water changes, at the minimum you should run water through it first for a few minutes to make sure that any that has been standing in the hose is washed out.

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