De-chlorinating Water

[DeepSeaFishin]

I know most of us use the chemicals to remove chlorine from our water, however, I was wondering if there are any other methods that we can save a little money with.


I read using a bucket, place water in and use several air pumps to vigirously pump air with air-stones overnight and that removes chlorine, am I correct?

Any other methods please tell

Tom

 

[Gatorbait]

You would still need to get rid of chloramines in most water supplies which only chemicals will do.

 

[Tolak]

With the price of utilities going up the way they are it would probably cost more for the electricity to aerate the bucket of water than for a small squirt of dechlor.

 

[vinylman]

Buy a bigger bottle of dechlorinator - that'll save you money.

 

[rdd1952]

Simply letting water sit in the bucket for a day or 2 will remove the chlorine but as mentioned, it won't remove chloramines if they are present.

 

[andywg]

More and more research indicates that chlorine isn't as bad as believed, and that chloramines actually feed the bacteria in our filters. As a result, one alternative method is to not use any dechlorinator, though I am not brave enough to try it yet.