Using Ammo-Lock during Cupramine treatment

[WLachnit]

Does anyone know if one can use Ammo-Lock during Cupramine treatment? According to Seachem, you can't use high doses of Prime because Cu++ will be reduced to Cu+ which is 10x more toxic. So, does Ammo-Lock have any reducing agents that will make it incompatible with cupramine? The only ingredient I could find was "proprietary aliphatic amines".

[bertoni]

I wouldn't take the risk, personally, until a real chemist can shed some light on this issue.

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Ammo lock contains sodium thiosulfate which is a reducing agent.

[WLachnit]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13339804#post13339804 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Randy Holmes-Farley
Ammo lock contains sodium thiosulfate which is a reducing agent.
Randy, thx.

So that means that I will only be able to keep my ammonia <0.5ppm in my 30gal QT by conducting 30-50% water changes every other day or so, I guess.....what a pain.

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I've never used an ammonia binder or copper in a QT tank.