Chloramines

[cweg71]

Hello,

I am a new member and currently keep a medium planted 125gal with clown loaches, bosemani rainbows, a royal panaque, and some rummy nose tetras. Does anyone know if the ammonia in chloramines is usable to plants. Or does the chloramine bond need to be broken for the plants to use the ammonia? This seems like a pretty informative site.

 

[ewurm]

Educated guess: The chlorine bond must be broken. Use Prime.

 

[WyldFya]

Chlorine, or chloramine are both very bad for plants. The water must be conditioned just like any other aquarium.

 

[dr_sudz]

cloramine is used in the water to distroy all bacteria, kinda like bleaching the water. This is like clorine but the differnce is that clorine disapates into the air over time where cloramine stays in the water indefinate. I would use a water conditioner to nutralize the chemical.

BTW: That is a really beautiful tank set up you have there.

 

[RadleyMiller]

I love the rainbows, and like everyone else said, use Prime to detoxify chloramines. They are bad for the tank.

 

[RadleyMiller]

I would like to grow some plants in my tank so the fry have something to hide in and my scat has something to eat.

Edit: Wrong Thread

 

[FishSkins]

Educated guess: The chlorine bond must be broken. Use Prime.

i would have to agree... really nitrates and a good co2 system is what plants want