Seachem Neutral Regulator 250gram

Does the job, don’t really need, water changes and good beneficial bacteria, works fine, these are just money makers for the company

It's been awhile since I've had a fish tank up until a few months ago and I haven't gotten a reliable test kit yet to use with the conditioners but if it's any comfort I have only changed my water once since I started (I know, I'm horrible, but it's a highly planted tank with soil) and whenever I had to top off my tank (has been a gallon every 4 to 5 days to a week) I have added a little bit to the bucket that I use to add water and if it wasn't at least converting the ammonia into non harmful ammonia I think all my fish would be dead now. I'm sorry that I couldn't be more detailed about how effective it is but I thought it would help knowing that it did enough to keep my fish alive.

As described and good value.

This truly helps my tank stay in all the right levels a must try

First of all, the product does seem to work by some degree, but the rock water of LA county seems to give it a real run around and does some other odd things. This review touches two different topics.If you are at all serous about keeping fish, to hear my tapwater is naturally PH of 8.2 will make you cringe. It also has a KH of 5 and a GH of 7 by the API test I have. I keep a 10 gallon tank that is lightly planted with a dirt and aquasoil substrate. The directions for the product say to use 1tsp for a 10-20 gal tank to maintain a PH of 7, "or more as necessary," of which I mix into my changing water. Here's the kicker though: I use 1/2 tsp per GALLON to achieve only a PH of 7.6. That is what? 500% the recommended dose? And that is just the straight tapwater in a gallon jug I use during water changes, not actual tank PH (which has never been below a 7.6 save for about a 6 week period when I added Fluval Stratum, to which now has burnt out and stopped buffering.) And although it doesn't seem to change my GH, it sure does change the KH of the water, going up to a 13.5, which in some ways makes sense, but still! Further more, in my test so far, it seems doubling the dose to 1 tsp for a gallon of water and letting it sit gets me a reading of maybe 7.4PH, and the KH doubled yet again. Seems like a lot of product to achieve minimal returns in my circumstance. In the future I may try getting Seachem's Acid Regulator to more aggressively attack my PH issues. By this point, my 1 yearold fish are acclimated to the elevated PH and do well enough, and sometimes show breeding behavior, but should I really want to take my hobby to the next level, I will either need to figure out how to lower the PH more, or give up on tropical fish and go saltwater...That all said, I will continue to use the product for now as it works better than the Petco brand PH reducer I had given up on, and has had a sudden, unexpected change upon my tank I want to explore more. If you have a planted tank, this may be of interest to you:When I first got the product, I read the label and directions, but some how failed to see that it also removed chlorine and chloramine from tapwater, and continued to use the dechlorinator (Seachem Prime) I already had along with it for the first few months. Then just a few weeks ago I read the bottle of Regulator again and realized I was double treating, so decided to use Regulator only for a waterchange of my semi-regular 30%. To my surprise, the following week there was a huge change in plant growth, up to a whole inch of new, large and healthy growth. My stem plants look like palmtrees now, cause they were nothing but sticks with a few scraggly leaflets that were all to short lived, and now suddenly are branching out in full size! For a whole year I had been struggling to keep my plants alive and growing, I gave some liquid fertilizers a try, I tried doing more regular waterchanges, I tried doing less waterchanges, added to the tank new aqua soil. Nothing. Plants that once did fantastic were just dying off without answer, including the damn duckweed! You know something is wrong when duckweed is struggling! But the week I used only Regulator, sudden improvement to my remaining stem plants. It may be a fluke, but I am chasing this idea and logging it, and will update my review over the coming months should it be false or true.

Ensure a balanced aquatic environment with Seachem Neutral Regulator—250 grams of powerful water conditioning. This product stabilizes pH levels and maintains them in a neutral range, promoting a healthy and thriving aquatic ecosystem. Ideal for both freshwater and marine setups.

I was dealing with extremely low pH due to what I believe was a decaying fish I didn't see because it was behind the filter and didn't find the fish until it was 1/2 decayed. Water aStarted getting cloudy after imtook fish out water was clearing up but never got clear. I then check pH and it was super low (below 6.0) I then discover that bacteria die or can't multiply with low pH which explains my high ammonia and cloudy water.I dissolved about 2.5 teaspoons in a 1/2 gallon bowl and added it 8oz at a time. I immediately checked !y pH and it was a 7.0 right away.It really worked and I am hoping that it stays stable and my biofilter can build up.

I was somewhat surprised that this product actually does exactly what it says it does! And I had results after just one use! If your pH fluctuates like mine did, don't hesitate to buy this to correct that problem! Just make sure you're getting the correct pH for your fish type