Regenerating Purigen with Start-help

I've used Seachem Prime for rinsing Purigen after bleaching for years, but have not used Seachem Safe.

However, my understanding is that Safe is essentially 'Prime', having all of the Prime properties, but in a stronger concentration - and therefore requires lesser amounts than Prime for conditioning tap water used for wcs, top-ups, or to rinse Purigen bags following bleaching.
For years I've used less than a capful of Prime (which is certainly less than a teaspoon) to condition up to several cups of the final rinse water for my Purigen bags, so I believe you should be quite safe using 1/2 teaspoon or so of SAFE (lol -no pun intended) to condition your final Purigen rinse water.

Do you mean Seachem Safe? Or do you mean HeadStart? I use Safe, and you can just mix it with distilled water to make the same thing as Prime. As far as I know, Safe is identical to Prime without the water added. If not, hopefully someone will correct me, and as a bonus, I get to learn something

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Sodium thiosulfate, this is the best stuff. You can make your own dechlor. A pound will make a TON of a dechlor solution. Here's what I followed to make it. http://www.jonahsaquarium.com/JonahSite/dechlor.htm

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I do 1 cup bleach/ 1 cup water. Leave over night. Rinse the the hell out of it. Then about 1 1/2 cup clean water with ~2 caps of prime then leave over night again. Never had an issue during this way for fresh or saltwater. Since prime is a dechlorinator and bleach is chlorine bleach, it works great. Purigen is then a nice bright creamy color and ready to use again. If I'm switching out bags of purigen, I'll store the freshly recharged damp bag in a ziplock.

I wouldn't try it's risky.. I saw many post where the fishes die after ... it's a cheap product really worth to buy a new one .....

natemcnutty said:

Do you mean Seachem Safe? Or do you mean HeadStart? I use Safe, and you can just mix it with distilled water to make the same thing as Prime. As far as I know, Safe is identical to Prime without the water added. If not, hopefully someone will correct me, and as a bonus, I get to learn something

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Yes, my screw up. I do mean Seachem Safe. My understanding, as you have stated, is that it is basically Prime without the added water. I am unsure of how much to add to a cup of water to use following the bleach soak when regenerating Purigen.

Thanks to all for your responses.

jr125 said:

Yes, my screw up. I do mean Seachem Safe. My understanding, as you have stated, is that it is basically Prime without the added water. I am unsure of how much to add to a cup of water to use following the bleach soak when regenerating Purigen.

Thanks to all for your responses.

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Yeah, so confirmation here that they are identical: http://www.seachem.com/support/forums/forum/freshwater-community/150-safe-vs-prime

For conversion, I think it's like 25 tsp to 500 ml or something like that.