Liquid Reactor?

[afboundguy]

I was in a small fish store picking up emergency calcium and picked up a bottle of liquid reactor (http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=7362) and was reading the back. I ended up getting just calcium because I knew it was waaaaaaaaaaay overpriced.

So has anyone ever used it? It says it doses calc/alk/mag/stronium... I don't think I'll get it but might in the future if it's decent... Thanks for the input...

 

[JohnK]

Seems sketchy to me.

If we could effectively dissolve high, balanced concentrations of Ca, mg, and alk in one bottle then why on earth is everyone dosing 2 part solutions, dripping kalk, and running Ca reactors

FWIW, *I may be WAY off on the specific product I'm talking about* but I've seen a certain real chemist debate the accuracy/reality of this product at length with nothing even resembling a real answer except that it's not possible. Again, I may be recalling a discussion about a different product from the same mfg, or a similar product or something..... but the point is, there are some really questionable additives on the market, for way too much $. My instinct is that this is one of them.

Just my $.02
jk

 

[afboundguy]

I was a little skeptical as well seeing how it doesn't seem to be a common item for dosing tanks... Just wanted to see if anyone has used it...

 

[Sean Irwin]

+1

It's pretty much impossible to combine those chemicials components and have them "work" as indicated.