[AquaticLife] Heavy Metals
Bill,
Yes, Prime will certainly work but it is a lot more expensive than the products I listed. Prime will also act as a dechlor, treat heavy metals and also treat a certain amount of ammonia but Jimmy was mainly concerned about heavy metals that might be coming up with his well water.. so this thread should interest you as well. With your one or two tanks, using a basic dechlor is probably as cost effective as you might need. I’m pretty sure Jimmy has ponds as well as tanks so finding an affordable solution to potential heavy metals is something to certainly look into.
Jimmy,
If you haven’t picked up on it in my original reply and I forgot to highlight it, but if you can find just the Ethylene Diamine TetraAcetate and figure out the solution…. or find EDTA tetrasodium salt with the specific CAS number of 64-02-8 (read on.. I found it for you 
) and prepare a 10% solution, you could probably treat your water with only that since you don’t really need the dechlor part, Sodium Thiosulfate. API’s Tap Water Conditioner uses a 9.8% solution of this chemical…. 10% for simplicity.
Here’s the MSDS on it… http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/e0200.htm with the manufacturers info on the MSDS and the jtbaker.com site must be a distributor since they provide the MSDS.
If you Google ‘CAS 64-02-8′ you will see many sites that have info on this chemical. Then click on the Shopping link http://www.google.com/products?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=CAS%2064-02-8&um=1&sa=N&t ab=wf and you’ll find a couple of photo supply outlets that sell it. A pound is only $15.75 and will likely last you the rest of your life. 100gms is $7.75. http://www.digitaltruth.com/store/cart/EDTA-NA4-Tetrasodium-Salt-100g-p-233. html
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