Water Changes With Aged Water

[midasman714]

for those of you who age their water:

- how long do you age it for?
- do you aerate it?
- When it comes time to put the aged water into aquarium, do you use a pump or other method?
- do you feel this works well? produce good results?
- and any other tips or advice w/ aging water would be helpful.

thanks.

 

[ward1066]

just remember aging wont get rid of chloramines

 

[LD50]

for those of you who age their water:

- how long do you age it for?
- do you aerate it?
- When it comes time to put the aged water into aquarium, do you use a pump or other method?
- do you feel this works well? produce good results?
- and any other tips or advice w/ aging water would be helpful.

thanks.

24hrs
yes
pump
yes it works well for me b/c my tap is over pressureized so I have to let the extra O2 gas off.
Use tap, agitate the water untill the paramiters chill, the only 2 reasons I can think of to age water is to dechlorinate or because its unstable. If you take a cup of water and test the Ph and say its 9 right? and you let it sit out, and test it 24 hrs later and the Ph is 7 you should age your water, if it dosent change or if the change is very small (less than .5) then you dont really need to age it.

 

[vfc]

I have chloramine, heavy metals, and nitrate out of my tap. I double dose with Prime and aerate it in a 75G holding tank for at least an hour; I average 4 hrs. of aging.

BTW - My holding tank is covered with a sheet of styrofoam with only a 3" opening on the one end for the filling tube and pump out tube. The fumes that come out of the tank at that opening (while I'm filling it) smells terrible (and I can actually see the smoky haze). I assume it is chloramine/chlorine gassing off. I add the Prime when the holding tank is almost full to let as much of the foul gas to escape; no sense in consuming Prime neutralizing the bad stuff that is escaping on its own.

I think if more people did what I do and have the opportunity to smell the gas that comes out of their tap water, they may start premixing the conditioner in a holding tank and age it before they expose their fish to it.

 

[jschall]

I use water straight from the tap with my aqueon water changer, and then I skip that whole "dechlorinating" step. And that whole "paying for dechlorinator" step.

Having well water is pretty sweet.

I still keep prime around - I use it when I bleach-dip plants and for recharging purigen.

 

[tcarswell]

I fill up a drum or two or three
Toss in a heater set it to tank temp 81
Throw in my pump let it run 20 hours agitating and off gassing the water.
At 20 hours I add prime to be safe as well as a DIY carbon attachment to my pump (for heavy metals and whatnot)
Let it sit four more hours letting the prime work and carbon do its job

Then pump the water in the 75% drained tank using an old eheim spray bar on my pumps outlet to aerate the water

overkill probably. But I no longer observe the fish stress that I used to pumping water directly in the tank VIA python.

 

[LD50]

I think if more people did what I do and have the opportunity to smell the gas that comes out of their tap water, they may start premixing the conditioner in a holding tank and age it before they expose their fish to it.

That isnt always the case, before I moved to where I'm at now I had sweet tap water man, no chloramine no bad smells low TDS Ph was 6.8-7, Gh 7 Kh 5 right out of the tap. Totaly depends on where you live and what your water source is.

 

[tcarswell]

That isnt always the case, before I moved to where I'm at now I had sweet tap water man, no chloramine no bad smells low TDS Ph was 6.8-7, Gh 7 Kh 5 right out of the tap. Totaly depends on where you live and what your water source is.

So true. Before I moved we had lightly chlorinated tap water at 7.5 PH nitrates 0

Now I got this rock hard 8.3 PH nitrates 20-30 ppm from the faucet garbage well water.