I sure am not a big fan of having to buy chemicals to get rid of
chlorine either. I add chemical chlorine remover only in a dire
emergency other than that I set water out in 5 gal buckets or use
water out of the bank of tanks that we have setup and running without
any fish in them. Its a constant supply of good water. 24 hours in an
open container will remove the chlorine, however as other pointe dout
cloramines need chemical remover to get rid of them. They will not
dissapate like chlorine will. Luckily the water company here does not
use cloramines.

On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 15:17:15 -0000, "nut"
wrote:

Gill Passman wrote:
nut wrote:




Don't use any water treatment... so long as the bucket has been
sitting overnight all the chlorine in the water will have evaporated.

Although it is true that Chlorine will disapate naturally if water is
left to stand the same is not true of chloramines. If you water
company uses chloramines in your water it is essential that you use a
suitable water conditioner before adding the water into your tank.
Personally, I use it even though, at the moment, my Water Company
does not use chloramines as I prefer to be able to get the water
change task done as efficiently as possible without having buckets of
water hanging around overnight - but then I have 6 tanks - and the
number of buckets required for a water change on a 130g tank make
this quite impractical....also without checking my water company's
website each time I change the water I never know if they might have
changed their policy on adding chloramines....

Thanks for the info Gill... i was unaware of this.



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