Evening all, wonder if this is worth a sticky in the emergency room? would help with future posts too:

Common water treatments seem to be:

Ammolock - deals with ammonia only
Amguard - deals with ammonia only
Amquel - deals with ammonia and nitrite, hard to find now, superceded by Amquel + plus (see below)
Amquel + plus - deals with ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, chlorine, chloramines and all heavy metals
Prime - deals with ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, heavy metals, chlorine and chloramine.

None of these actually remove the ammonia/nitrite/nitrate of course, they simply make it into a more non-toxic form for the fish.

In the case of high ammonia, to determine if there is any toxic ammonia left after treatment you would still need a test kit specifically for toxic ammonia such as the Seachem Ammonia Alert (www.aquaessentials.co.uk) if you can't find locally, which is very common. Regular water changes are key normally.

Thanks for that V - sure this will prove most useful Have moved to General as it may come in handy for all sorts of things.

Can I ask why you guys use seachem prime over amquel plus?

I think Prime is more widely available here and that's what we have experience with, that's all.

Prime works out to be a lot more economical in use. 236 ml of Amquel plus costs £9.15 and treats 480 gallons. 250 ml of Prime costs £8.99 and treats 2500 gallons. Cost per 10 gallons - Amquel 20p, Prime - 3.5p.