Anyone do their WC without declorinator?

[Cartel]

For the inexpensive cost of a dechlorinator/chloramine remover, why risk the health of your fish? Too often we experience a fish loss for "no reason". There is always a reason, whether we can see it or not. As a responsible fishkeeper it is your responsibility to do everything you can to properly care/provide for your fish.

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[Bderick67]

Also consider the effect chlorine may have on your beneficial bacteria. I;m sure there are many factors that you should consider. I would test the tap water first for chloramine, if none is present and your going through the hassle of letting water sit, then I'm sure it'll work fine for ya.

 

[kdrun76]

I usualy let my the new water sit for 24-48 hrs before using it.

What sort of a vat do you use to "let your water sit" in? And how do you pump it?

Good grief a 50% change on a tank large enough to house the pacu and aros has got to mean more than 100 gallons of water!

API tap water conditioner costs me less than $7 a year and I change and dechlorinate between 2 and 300 gallons of water a week. I wouldn't want to store that for 48 hours.

 

[spongebob281]

API tap water conditioner costs me less than $7 a year and I change and dechlorinate between 2 and 300 gallons of water a week. I wouldn't want to store that for 48 hours.

How did you come up with 2-300G per week = $ 7 of declorinator a year? I do about the same amount of WC and i go thru API bottle like it's beer

 

[spwd]

^^ mmmmmm beeeeeer.
Anyway no i always use either ro or ro and aged water or treated water.





Steve

 

[sostoudt]

I always just poured water straight out of the tap into my turtle tank... I declorinate now but he was fine for a few years.

i think there is no risk for turtles, since they dont have gills.

 

[Egon]

Here's a pic of my drip system. The two gate valves are the supply, the unused valve is for my next tank going in maybe next week. I trickle in about 1 gallon an hour to my 450. The extra water overflows into my sump then overflows again into my yard (roses love the fish water). No water treatment, no buckets, no mess, no time waisted.
It surprises me how loyal the "water treaters" are to their product. They will defend their product with terms like chorine and clorimane (spell) and the health of your fish, bla, bla bla. It's like talking to the locals here in Phoenix about the heat........"its a DRY heat" so your telling me 118 is not that hot cuz it's "dry" ???
I never treat the water going in my tank, the fish get the same water my family and cats get. My fish breed and grow so it appears they are happy, that's all the data I need.

 

[bob965]

Here's a pic of my drip system. The two gate valves are the supply, the unused valve is for my next tank going in maybe next week. I trickle in about 1 gallon an hour to my 450. The extra water overflows into my sump then overflows again into my yard (roses love the fish water). No water treatment, no buckets, no mess, no time waisted.
It surprises me how loyal the "water treaters" are to their product. They will defend their product with terms like chorine and clorimane (spell) and the health of your fish, bla, bla bla. It's like talking to the locals here in Phoenix about the heat........"its a DRY heat" so your telling me 118 is not that hot cuz it's "dry" ???
I never treat the water going in my tank, the fish get the same water my family and cats get. My fish breed and grow so it appears they are happy, that's all the data I need.

If you're adding 1gal/hr to a 450g tank with a drip system, then naturally you have no use for dechlorinator, because you're adding such a relatively small amount and it has time to dissipate. That's no reason to look down your nose at people who use these products and act as if they're buying snake oil. High concentrations of chlorine/chloramine are damaging to fish, and the products designed to remove it actually work. These are facts.

 

[luohanfan]

can anyone post anything that shows what damage untreated water does to fish ?

 

[Egon]

can anyone post anything that shows what damage untreated water does to fish ?

Not the advertisement on the bottle, actual data like a test with a control population and so on.

I doubt it, lets wait and see.........

No one seems to have hard evidence "untreated water" is bad for the fish. I would love to see a side by side "taste test" or some other actual experiment. One tank with treated water only and one tank with untreated water (control) same fish, same temps, same food. Kinda like a consumer reports test.

Untreated water = potable water that comes out of the tap. I just don't understand how this can be bad for fish. I do understand the advertisement for the treated water would like people to believe the water is bad. There just making money..........anyway enough of that rant. To each his own I guess.