The horrors of your local fish store being out of chlorine remover

[duanes]

You can use lemon juice to dechlorinate in a pinch.
So if you have acid water loving fish it will work.
When I worked for a water facility, we had to drain a heavily chlorine disinfected coagulation basin into a local stream (the basin held couple hundred thousand gallons).
It was considered better for the environment (considering the type stream) to use ascorbic acid, and adjust the pH a few hundred yards after dechlorination just before the effluent entered the stream.
My job at the time was to continuously monitor dechlorinattion, flow, and pH by running back-n-forth between the 2 points testing every few minutes.

 

[LBDave]

You can use lemon juice to dechlorinate in a pinch.
So if you have acid water loving fish it will work.
When I worked for a water facility, we had to drain a heavily chlorine disinfected coagulation basin into a local stream (the basin held couple hundred thousand gallons).
It was considered better for the environment (considering the type stream) to use ascorbic acid, and adjust the pH a few hundred yards after dechlorination just before the effluent entered the stream.
My job at the time was to continuously monitor dechlorinattion, flow, and pH by running back-n-forth between the 2 points testing every few minutes.

Interesting. Not sure I would use lemon juice in my tank. But interesting...

 

[RD.]

There are commercial dechlorinators that are based on ascorbic acid. Never used any of them, but they have been discussed on MFK in the past. I wouldn't trust them with my tap water (2 ppm chloramine) but as Duane said could be used in a pinch.

 

[TwoHedWlf]

That's a horror I've never worried about, because I've never used dechlorinator.

 

[Mr geophagus]

Same.
It’s just easier so I can be sure I always have it on hand.

I’m curious, what kind of water did you buy?

29 gallons distilled 5 gallons Reverse osmosis 5 gallons spring water