Cholorine!

[kat and james]

heya
just wondering if there is any way of measuring the chlorine in your tap water (short of calling the water company.. they aren't very helpful ).

thanks!

 

[modernhamlet]

heya
just wondering if there is any way of measuring the chlorine in your tap water (short of calling the water company.. they aren't very helpful ).

thanks!

You shouldn't need to test chlorine unless you have reason to believe it is unusually high. Just use dechlorinator.

According to SWW (which I think is your water supplier), they haven't had any chlorine readings higher than normal in the last year.

http/www.swwater.co.uk/media/pdf/k/p/SWWQM04_1.pdf

 

[kat and james]

we don't actaully need to use decholrinator at the moment, we just do a third water change once a week on both our tanks, and there are no adverse affects (we were using dechlorinator originally, but not using it didn't affect the water quality, so we decided to stop, as it was having no beneficial affects to the water quality, which was and still is fine).

i'm asking this simply because a) i am curious, and B) we are moving house soon, and moving the fish into a new tank, which is two thirds bigger than our current tank. we plan on taking as much of the current tank water with us as we can, but will have to top up with tapwater, we will be adding dechlorinator (tapsafe) on this occassion just to be on the safe side (and it is a lot of tap water to add!), but i would like to know for future water changes whether we can carry on as we are, or whether we will have to invest in some more dechlorinator.

ps.. sorry for the miss-spelling of chlorine in the title!!!

 

[modernhamlet]

Sounds risky to me, doing water changes with chlorinated tapwater. Chlorine has adverse effects on both the fish and the cycle bacteria colonies.

But if you've gotten away with it so far, who knows?

 

[kris-b-]

we don't actaully need to use decholrinator at the moment, we just do a third water change once a week on both our tanks, and there are no adverse affects (we were using dechlorinator originally, but not using it didn't affect the water quality, so we decided to stop, as it was having no beneficial affects to the water quality, which was and still is fine).

i'm asking this simply because a) i am curious, and B) we are moving house soon, and moving the fish into a new tank, which is two thirds bigger than our current tank. we plan on taking as much of the current tank water with us as we can, but will have to top up with tapwater, we will be adding dechlorinator (tapsafe) on this occassion just to be on the safe side (and it is a lot of tap water to add!), but i would like to know for future water changes whether we can carry on as we are, or whether we will have to invest in some more dechlorinator.

ps.. sorry for the miss-spelling of chlorine in the title!!!

chlorine kills the bacteria that are in the filter that reduce ammonia, so by not adding dechlorinator you could be harming the cycle. Am I right in saying this???!!!

 

[Ddraig Goch]

Water conditioners don't only remove chlorine from the water, they also ensure that harmful metals are removed or rendered harmless. You should try to use it all the time even if you do not notice a difference in the water quality. If you are using 'Tapsafe' then it also contains aloe vera which helps to protect the fish.

"Bioactive TapSafe instantly removes chlorine compounds and toxic metals present in tap water and adds aloe vera as a protective coating for delicate skin and gills of fish and beneficial bioactive bacteria to boost the essential aquarium biological cycles and consume toxic ammonia."

As you can see this is much more than a dechlorinator.

 

[kat and james]

yes you are right in saying that.. but what i'm saying is that we used to use dechlorinator and stopped, but it has had no adverse affect, ie the tank has never gone back into a cycle, therefore i do not think that there is very much chlorine in out tap water, at least not enough to kill the bacteria and restart the cycle. just curious as to how much there is in there, and how much there would need to be to kill bacteria (our water down here is really good actually.. we are lucky

guess i may need to speak nicely to a friend who is studying chemistry....