Dechlorinating Crystals

[stingrayJK]

Ok as most of you know I am currently in the construction phase of my 3000 sq ft ... Fresh water stingray hatchery ( Dark Rivers Hatchery). I am currently working with the issue of using county water which is the worst I ever seen. I have the filtration worked out see thread attachment http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=176646

this will show my full planned system......but my question is I have set my system up as a drip system from my water source and I want to dechlorinze by doing a flow thru my drum filters with a flow rate of 250/230 gpm also the drum filter dumps about 250 gallons per day in a total system of 20 k. Pic of my drum filters and the hatchery lay out is on bottom of page.

I need to know if I place the dechlorinating crystals in a basket/ sock directly into the drum filters sump will that do the trick and if anyone has work with this stuff before??

Here is the information on the product;

Dechlorinating Crystals This is sodium thiosulfate. It is the active ingredient that removes chlorine found in all chorine removal products. Simply mix 1 lb into a gallon of water to make stock solution. Then test with a chlorine test kit to see how many drops are required to remove the chlorine from a given amount of tap water. Most situations require no more than 1 drop of stock solution to remove the chlorine from a gallon of tap water. This is by far the cheapest way to remove chlorine from your tap water. Depending on your water's chlorine concentration, 1 lb will dechlorinate between 30,000 and 150,000 gallons of water.


Thanks in advance
Jason

 

[hybridtheoryd16]

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=173898&highlight=low+cost+dechlorinator --------------------------I use them and like them. They are what every brand name dechlorinator on the market uses for the base of there product. How ever during the dechlorinating process this sodium thiosulfate will break the bond between chlorine and ammonia or chloramine bond and get rid of the chlorine but it does nothing for the left over ammonia. Some pond owners also treat with a ammonia nuetralizer. I do not but my largest tank is 125g. When I do my weekly 50% water change and then test the ammonia sometimes I get a reading of .25ppm after changing 60 gallons of water. And sometimes I get no reading.My biological filter gets rid of the .25ppm in as little as an hour. But it is something that you should know.

 

[cassharper]

Chemilizer

It is supposed to be more effective than the dosmatic pumps (longer lasting), make a stock solution and it will inject into the input.

 

[Gator]

As hybridtheory said it will treat the chlorine and so on but it will not precipitate any heavy metals that are present in the water like copper which can be very deadly to fish as it builds up in their systems.