ok so since i started fish keepying i was taught that letting your water sit for 24hours will get rid of contaminates through evap.... so every week when i do a fresh water change i fill up a 5 G water bottle with really hot water nd i let it sit there intill the next water change i loose about an inch of water in there so no biggie the main question is is this practical> ? has any1 heard of this> > ?
water changes
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I believe with substances like Prime this practice for FW tanks has all but gone the way of the DODO. I remember my mother talking about keeping fish in the 60's and 70's leaving buckets of water out. My tank gets a garden hose strait in the tank and i add a little Prime when im done. I havent had water problems for 10+ years (in the early years before i knew of Prime, stress coat was used)
I never heard of that method. I would just do it the regular way. I have a 240gal, and imagine if I let the water sit doing a 25% water change, that's 60gals. So I would do it the regular way.
Can prime be used for freshwater, or is that for saltwater only? Prime is always in the saltwater section at the LFS.