dechlorinating water scam or a must

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bigspizz;1643843; said:
We still must know where he "wiped" this beni bac from...:ROFL:
lol he walked into the house and came back out on the patio with the bottle :screwy: u guys are sick
 
I guess I was born yesterday. It never ever entered my mind that anyone who didn't want to kill his fish would even think about using straight tap water. My Fig8 Puffer is one of my best friends....
 
The bottle, meaning something like stability or one of those new tank syndrome products? If so, I dont like those things, all the BB dies in there - theres no oxygen.
 
gonnelro;1645915; said:
The bottle, meaning something like stability or one of those new tank syndrome products? If so, I dont like those things, all the BB dies in there - theres no oxygen.
i believe its the new stuff
 
also depends on how sensitive your fish are, and how trusting you are. You could test your tap water right out of the facut and see how bad it is.
Otherwise, if you create enough turbulance when adding the water, slushing in bucket, spraying onto rock or surface of water, that aeration could do the majority of the job to dissipate most of it. But again, it depends on how much is there in the first place, how sensitive the fish are you keep, and how trusting you are.
 
i use prime, even in my pond and well water in the pond, i have a water softener on tap and i turn it off so the salt does not goe in my tanks
 
Demonfish;1649173; said:
I don't know about a 75 % water change, but I do upwards of 25% water changes in my tanks at a time and just use water straight out of the tap.

Why?

A) Don't care about the health/wellbeing of your charges. (just because problems aren't blatantly obvious doesn't mean they aren't there still).

B) To lazy to mix dechlor.

C) I can't think of a 'C'.

After reading all these posts are you still going to do it?

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rhinod56;1649510; said:
also depends on how sensitive your fish are, and how trusting you are. You could test your tap water right out of the facut and see how bad it is.
Otherwise, if you create enough turbulance when adding the water, slushing in bucket, spraying onto rock or surface of water, that aeration could do the majority of the job to dissipate most of it. But again, it depends on how much is there in the first place, how sensitive the fish are you keep, and how trusting you are.

No matter how much turbulence you have it won't dissipate chloramines.

Dr Joe

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Most of us have gotten into a swimming pool at one time and had our eyes be irritated and skin itch/burn. If it's our pool we correct the problem, if it's someone else's pool we just don't go back in.

No one here would go into such a pool for several hours at a time, day after day, let alone stay in there with this irritating/burning sensation 24/7.

This is what the fish have to put up with, because they can't leave. If this were a point in a stream you wouldn't find fish there.
 
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