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Jumpstart the beneficial bacteria in your aquarium with API Quick Start. This 16oz bottle is an essential tool for creating a healthy and balanced aquatic environment for your fish. Quick Start contains live nitrifying bacteria that immediately start working to reduce ammonia and nitrite levels, preventing fish loss and promoting a stable aquarium ecosystem.
Liquid
Fish
Allergen-Free
Freshwater, Saltwater
Tropical Freshwater, Betta, Cichlid, Goldfish, Marine Fish, Marine Invertebrate, Bottom Feeder
Aquatic Turtle, Frog, Hermit Crab
Direction To Use:
Use when starting a new aquarium, adding new fish, changing water, changing filter media, after medicating, or whenever ammonia or nitrite are detected. Use the API dosing cap on bottle. Shake well. Add 10 ml per 10 U.S. Gallons (38 L) of aquarium water. For saltwater aquariums, double the dose.

Has greatly improved our tank water quality, we also it for our swimming pool.
This bottle is really of good quality and best price
It works just as well as the larger size and is very effective.
Got a new tank and this product was a lifesaver. It established the beneficial bacteria so quickly. My fish were swimming happily within days!
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