Tetra Aquae Safe alright for axolotls?

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I ran out of water conditioner this morning and asked my mom to pick some more up at town today. I've been going through it pretty quick because I'm doing daily water changes as my tank isn't completely cycled yet. Anyways she brought home tetra aqua safe brand. It says it replenishes slime coat and the ingredients are sodium hydroxymethane, sulfinate, chelating compounds, polyvinylpyrollidones, and organic hydro colloids. I know the slime coat isn't necessary and my other conditioner didn't have a slime coat, but is it poisonous to axolotls? Are any of the ingredients poisonous? Has anybody had any experience with this conditioner? I need to do a water change tonight and it's the only conditioner I have on hand for right now. Is it safe and if not, what should I do about the water change? Leave it until tommorow evening, add regular tap water instead? I'm really clueless here so any help would be awesome.
 
I did do some looking around. Most say it's safe but others have said there's iodine in it (although not stated in the ingredients on the bottle) and I definetly do not want to put the stress of morphing on to my axolotls. That's why I started a new thread to kinda get me a better answer on this subject.
 
Well I went ahead and used it. I figured if it was just a twenty percent change and if the bottle says its safe for all aquariums than it can't hurt just this once. I do want to get a different brand with more reliability as soon as possible. Any suggestions on good safe water dechorlinators?
 
I'm just seeing your last post. If it has iodine in it, I'd take your axolotl out. :(

Also....I use Prime.
 
I'm not quite sure it has iodine. I saw one post that said it did and the rest said it was safe, but I'm definetly changing to a different dechlorinator ASAP. I have read elsewhere that prime was a good brand. I'll probably switch to that.
 
i think it contains iodine you better get him out of that tank :eek:
 
I've been using tetra aquasafe for a few months now and my axie is fine.
 
Well that's good to hear! At least it may not be as urgent as I thought. But I still don't trust it.
 
Oooh so it does say it contains Iodine, my bad. Well I've been using it for a while and so far my axie has been fine. I've used up most of the bottle so I'll switch to something else just to be safe.
 
Where does it say iodine? My bottle doesn't say it. That's why I was so confused why people said it contained iodine.
 
Mine says it, it's just really small writing lol. Should have looked more closely. Hopefully it's just a really small trace. :S
 
@Jojo: Iodine, as well as injected hormones, can sometimes cause axolotls to begin morphing. Some chemicals have really weird effects on axxies even if they don't affect fish at all.I'm not sure if it does anything else.
 
I really don't think mine says iodine anywhere.
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Oh looks like I need to get something else too as I have been using Aquasafe D: and Gangsterluff here mine says it has Iodine on the back ,your's seems different but the bottle also says (new) on the front so perhaps you have an older version?
 

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I just got off the phone with Tetra customer service and they said there was no iodine in aqua safe. I even asked them to double check and they still said no. So I don't know what's up.
 
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