While starting a new aquarium, do I add easy life before adding fish or after? And for how many days? My new aquarium has no fish for 25 days. Not cycled yet.
Been using easy life for years on my fresh water 120 gallon tank .... but it's starting to get harder to get here in the 48 states....... prime is cheaper, but the extra expense for the easy life is well worth it .
Paul, I try to follow the reefing advice you provide on your channel & now use Easy Life Filter Medium. I also know you advocate using phosphate remover & I use API Prevent Algae liquid phosphate remover weekly... so my questions are: Does Easy Life Filter Medium remove phosphates, making phosohate remover unnecessary? Also can both stated products be used safely in conjunction,if so in what order... or would Easy Life just remove the API Prevent Algae , rendering it usless? Also since Easy Life Filter Medium increases biological activity... do you think it is a good idea to add additional bacterial products like Seachem Stability or API Stress Zyme, as ongoing "boosters"... primarily as organic digesters, since my tank is well established? Thanks for your great videos, I really appreciate the channel :)
Great video! Helped clear any confusion I had. I'm surprised at the lack of video content Easy-Life fluid filter medium has on TH-cam as it seems a fantastic unique product. Time for me to ditch Tetra Aquasafe and invest in these products.
I'm a big fan of Seachem products. Seachem purigen, prime, stability. These are my 3 main Seachem products I use. I also prefer the Seachem test kits. When using Prime in large doses to lock up ammonia, nitrite, nitrate remember API ammonia test does not work properly. You can use Seachem ammonia alert instead.
Does filter medium affect any meds being added to the aquarium? Fluke solve etc? Cheers
Easy life will take meds out of solution
While starting a new aquarium, do I add easy life before adding fish or after? And for how many days? My new aquarium has no fish for 25 days. Not cycled yet.
You added add it before and or after
Been using easy life for years on my fresh water 120 gallon tank .... but it's starting to get harder to get here in the 48 states....... prime is cheaper, but the extra expense for the easy life is well worth it .
Is easy life will help in getting rid of the cloudy water?
Yes
Paul, I try to follow the reefing advice you provide on your channel & now use Easy Life Filter Medium. I also know you advocate using phosphate remover & I use API Prevent Algae liquid phosphate remover weekly... so my questions are: Does Easy Life Filter Medium remove phosphates, making phosohate remover unnecessary? Also can both stated products be used safely in conjunction,if so in what order... or would Easy Life just remove the API Prevent Algae , rendering it usless?
Also since Easy Life Filter Medium increases biological activity... do you think it is a good idea to add additional bacterial products like Seachem Stability or API Stress Zyme, as ongoing "boosters"... primarily as organic digesters, since my tank is well established?
Thanks for your great videos, I really appreciate the channel :)
easylife doesn't remove phosphate effectively
I have never used API Prevent Algae, but I assume it would be fine together
Thanks for the reply Paul. I really appreciate the help! :)
can u use prime and easy life together? after a water change for optimal condition of the water?
yes
i have a red sea 350 does the skimmer need to be running how often should i add to my tank?
yes run skimmer
best every couple of weeks
Does easylife has any negative effect on sponge filter? I heard it clogs the filter and make it inoperative
no it doesn't if you clean the sponge regularly
Added easy life to my saltwater tank seems as though my skimmer removed it all should I have turned if off until the cloudiness cleared up
+12287boss the skimmer will not remove the easylife it will remove what the easylife binds up
I would leave the skimmer on
Thanks for the quick reply much appreciated
Easy life can be grown algae ?
Can what?
Great video! Helped clear any confusion I had. I'm surprised at the lack of video content Easy-Life fluid filter medium has on TH-cam as it seems a fantastic unique product. Time for me to ditch Tetra Aquasafe and invest in these products.
+Stefan Blackwell I love it
I'm a big fan of Seachem products. Seachem purigen, prime, stability. These are my 3 main Seachem products I use. I also prefer the Seachem test kits. When using Prime in large doses to lock up ammonia, nitrite, nitrate remember API ammonia test does not work properly. You can use Seachem ammonia alert instead.
Good tip. People tend to get the 2 confused.
I'm going back to prime, easy life just killed my neon tetra, black knife fish and few other catfish