Customer Reviews

Aquarium Pharmaceuticals 85C Stress Coat Fish and Tap Water Conditioner, 16 oz. Bottle

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I have relied on this product to pre-condition water for my tank for about 5 years.
This vendor is great - fast shipment, well packed, ahead of time.

I have been using this product for about 10 years and I love it. I have tried a few other water conditioners but my tanks always just seam to be healthier when I use this product. I highly recommend it :-)

Every time you add or remove something from your aquarium, it can stress your fish. Stress Coat can help your fist survive these changes. I use Stress Coat every time I do a partial water change. I haven't lost a fish in a water change ever. Great stuff!

Last week my new female betta fish Annabelle somehow managed to shred her delicate fins in her balinese lantern (which is rough around the edges). Having heard about API's stress coat, I picked up a bottle from a retail pet store chain. Within a few days, I started noticing some growth in my betta's fins. Clearly the aloe vera was doing its job on my poor girl's shredded fins. Even her missing ventral fin has started growing back. I am definitely pleased with the results that I have seen with this product. Definitely will use this for my bettas if their fins are ever damaged.

I use this product with every water change or when introducing new fish. I typically change twenty gallons out on a 55 gallon tank. I treat the 20 gallons full strength per instructions, which when added back to the tank would put it just under half strength. My fish are going on seven years of age, so I am very please with this product.

works as intended. does not kill your fish.
the aloe is actually benefitial to my fish. he had some torn fins and it helped them to heal faster than normal

After two days of using this product, I wasnt scared that my fish would die. I was scared before i used because it was just swimming in one spot to stay afloat after my irritated, blind silver molly bit its whole tail off. On day three, could see some of the tail regrowing. This product is great and I highly recommend it. Yes, I dont have the molly anymore so its not gonna happen again. I couldnt believe it worked so fast.

The product arrived on time, is exactly what I ordered, I use it every time for water changes and adding new fish.

Stress Coat is a great water conditioner but you need seperate conditioner for metals. I don't use no other conditioners due to my water is safe as far as metals go.

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.