Seachem Pristine Aquarium Treatment, 500ml (001438)

Was excited to try this new product but the cap was not on tight when it arrived..

Came opened and leaked all in the box....AMAZING!!!!

Good supplement!!

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 wasnt 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. Bettas 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 wasnt until sunday night i came home and saw the results. WHOA....its 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 wasnt 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....ill remove it and not add another piece for another 24 hours or so...the first time i did this after Id 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. ive removed the zucchini. but its 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 youre going to be throwing in large amounts of fresh veggies for snails or invertebrates i would just keep this in mind. i think ill still feed my snail veggies...but it will not stay in the tank for more than a couple of hours.

Since adding pristine into my tank I have noticed a big change in sludge build up on the decor

I love this product. I used to only use prime or stability, but this one works so much better in my opinion for both cycling a tank, and keeping up with water changes for goldfish and loaches.

I’ve been using this for over a month and don’t notice a difference. I ended up replacing carbon filtration with purigen and biomax which did a better job. Probably won’t buy this again.

The first pic doesnt even show how cloudy it really was and there was tonssss of brown algae growing all over the rock, sand, and glass!! It literally happened overnight. I used the recommended dosage and 2-3 days later almost ALL of the algae and cloudy water cleared up. Dont freak out if it gets more cloudy at first, its just the algae being broken down into something your filter/sump bacteria can eat. I also cleaned my filters to help out a bit. I just use this as needed, if you continue to keep getting algae outbreaks, its probably due to overfeeding or insufficient flow in the tank to stop algae from forming. Cant vouch for how well this works in freshwater, but I imagine youd get similar results :)

Did a great job

I use this with Equilibrium and things seem to be happy. I tend to over feed but I never seem to have problems with ammonia and nitrites. I do clean the tank with about a 30% water change about every week. I add both after each water change.