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| 7.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 7.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 8.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 3 reviews |
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4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Essential For Healthy Fish!Jul 13, 2005
By Martin A Hogan
"Marty From SF"
Stresscoat is NOT cheap but is absolutely necessary for every water change you make in your tank. It not only neutralizes tap water contaminants like heavy metals, chloramines, chlorine and some nitrates/nitrites, but it adds a protective natural coat to your fish. Every time you catch a fish, change the temperature, or have fish that are aggressive - they stress. This product is essential and is best to buy in this large quantity. I personally use it for my African Cichlids, which are VERY aggressive! This much Stresscoat will last me for over 115 water changes if I change 30% of my water twice a month (which I do at a minimum in a 50-gallon tank).
Best Chlorine Remover for AquariumsJan 04, 2010
By D. WINKA
I have faithfully used the Stress Coat + for several years when ever doing any water changes with my fresh water tropical fish, and have not had any "casualities". The product has Aloe in it to help the slime coat that fish have, and it does seem to work very well. And the 64oz size is a good buy as the smaller sizes can be used quickly.
2 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Aloe vera has very low Ph. I had a very bad experience with this stuff.Jan 26, 2011
By lighten_up_already2
"lighten_up_already2"
I'd recommend trying a small size first on your tank and make sure it is safe.
I live where the water is so soft there's almost no minerals in it at all. Maintaining a Ph of 7.0 was difficult but possible, but my snails had the white pitting and my guppy had fin rot that he contracted during the time when I was totally new to fish keeping and didn't understand how important it is to snails and guppies to keep the Ph at or above 7.0.
I had finally got the situation under control. My guppy's fins were regenerating and my snails had new shell growth that was healthy.
Then I made the grave mistake of trying this product. Aloe vera? So what. Looked like a stupid gimmick. Since when do fish need aloe vera? Do we need to pull them out of the tank and rub moisturizing cream on them too? How about some Lubriderm?
Anyway, shortly after switching to this product my Ph crashed to 6.0. My guppy's fins started rotting and got worse than ever, and the healthy growth on my snails that survived me climbing the learning curve last Summer now have white calcified shell damage. I don't even recognize the two I named just a few months ago!
I was doing emergency water changes morning and evening just to keep the Ph at about 6.4. (My tap water is totally soft, but comes out of the tap at PH of about 7.2). My hands got raw and cracked because I was washing my hands so much after working with the tank so much.
I asked myself what had changed when this started, and the only thing I came up with was switching to this aloe vera stress coat. Then I looked up aloe vera juice on the Internet and found it has a Ph of 3.5 to 5.0 depending on where I looked. Wow, I thought, maybe putting something with Ph that low in the tank could throw the whole Ph down quite a bit.
I bought some Tetra brand stress coat and did a few more water changes (some cracks in hands bleeding now, maybe MY hands could use some aloe vera!!) and soon the Ph climbed back up to 6.8.
I did two emergency salt dips for the guppy, whose fin rot had begun on his body too. It looks like the rot has been halted. The damage has been done to my snails. Maybe once I get this under control I'll have time to just stare at the tank a while and figure out who is who again through all the shell damage.
So, thanks API for putting my fish and snails through hell. Brilliant idea mixing a super low Ph substance in with water conditioner. Did you test this thoroughly before you put it into production? Anyway, I could rant further but I think it's time to rub some Vaseline moisture lotion on my cloud fish. They really need to chill out.
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