Need help with adding water to tank

[Miguel4u2]

City water has a small amount of chlorine in it...

Chlorine can/will kill bacteria...

The chlorine levels of city water vary considerably from city to city...

Adding enough water to an aquarium to replace evaporation is very (very very very) unlikely to add enough chlorine to the system to be detrimental to the bacterial colony...

Without knowing specific details of your water, your aquarium and your exact replacement method could anyone say yes or no with 100% certaincy... but many will try...

In personal experience with my local city water... I'm willing to do up to a 20% water change without adding dechlorinator... although dechlorinator is cheap enough that I typically add it anyway...

Personally, when adding 5 gallons or so to a larger tank (75 gal+) I do not add dechlorinator...

Whether or not to add dechlorinator will be a personal choice... let us know what you decide and how it works out for you...

Thank You very much, very informative. I will probably add about 10 gallons a week but anyways i will buy dechlorinator just to be on the safe side.But will i have to wait 24 hours after using the dechlorinator? or just put it in then pour in the water?

 

[Twicksisted]

i think its down to where you live and how bad the water quality is...
to be safe i add tetra aquasafe, its cheap enough... but on occasion when i have run out I have just used plain old tap water...
also my lfs (in the same city on the same watermains) just uses hoses directly onto the watertap to fill tanks... dosent even use warm water and hasnt had any issues.

Obviously this will change depending on where you are, the ambient temperature (if using straight tap cold) and the level of purity of the water

 

[Miguel4u2]

i think its down to where you live and how bad the water quality is...
to be safe i add tetra aquasafe, its cheap enough... but on occasion when i have run out I have just used plain old tap water...
also my lfs (in the same city on the same watermains) just uses hoses directly onto the watertap to fill tanks... dosent even use warm water and hasnt had any issues.

Obviously this will change depending on where you are, the ambient temperature (if using straight tap cold) and the level of purity of the water

Thank You, i live in New York and use warm water. The PH is like 8.0 and that is all i know about. ! question, is that a pike in your avatar? if it is what type is it? if not, what fish is it. Looks beautiful.

 

[Twicksisted]

cheers, it "was" a Channa Ornatipinnus (ornate snakehead from burma).
I was kinda miss-sold it and diddnt know that it was subtropical, banged it into my 27c tank and it died after a week of not eating

There was only one left at the shop and around 100 available in the trade at the time, so i rushed into it when i saw it and tried in vain to get information on it with my iphone at the lfs (couldnt find anything useful on google at the time).

Anyways lesson learned... poor fishy... was a real stunner

 

[Toby_H]

Thank You very much, very informative. I will probably add about 10 gallons a week but anyways i will buy dechlorinator just to be on the safe side.But will i have to wait 24 hours after using the dechlorinator? or just put it in then pour in the water?

The ideal way to add dechlorinator is to add it to a bucket of tap water prior to pouring the tap water into the tank... if/when done this way the dechlorinated tap water can immediately be added to the tank...

I use Prime as my dechlorinator... I add Prime directly to the tank then add water from a hose...

Read the label on the product you buy... each one may have slightly different recommendations... none of them are 'dangerous' products and a little slip up either way is still safe...

 

[devder1]

what does flamed mean?

it means every1 is going to rip him to shreds for having no regards for the animals he is keeping

 

[Pharaoh]

I always add dechlorinator when adding water directly to an aquarium. There is too much risk in killing beneficial bacteria and harming the fish. Of course the chlorine and chloramine level vary by location, but to me, its not worth the risk.