Dechlorinator

[maestro]

When doing a water change, how long do u leave the tap water once you've added dechlorinator to make it safe to add to the tank, does it work straight away or do u have to leave it for a while?

 

[gadazobe]

Dechlorinators work immediately, there is no need to let the water stand after adding it. Make sure that your dechlorinator also removes chloromine

 

[nightlife20]

there is loads of oppinions one this

1) do it striahgt away
2) leave it for 24hrs
3) leave it for 76+
4) leave it for 2 weeks..


i do mine within an hr of mixin it... and iv had no side effects.

 

[JobySp]

Depends on how you feel on the subject. Sometimes I do it within 20 mintues of adding the dechlorinator and sometimes I wait 24 hours - Personally I don't think it makes much difference... As long as you add it

 

[maestro]

mine also removes chloromine, but is this still safe to use on a fishless cycle, i dont want to interfere with the ammonia or will it just affect the chloromine?

 

[akhtar]

dechlorinator, helps the fishless cycle

it removes chlorine and chlorimane, and thse substances kill the bacteria (good bacteria!)

i just add and stir 8)

hope this helped

 

[gadazobe]

mine also removes chloromine, but is this still safe to use on a fishless cycle, i dont want to interfere with the ammonia or will it just affect the chloromine?
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Why do you want to do a water change during a fishless cycle? The only water change you need to do is when the cycle is complete and you're going to add the fish.

 

[maestro]

im not doing a water change, im just adding water to a bare tank and adding the dechlorinator so the bacteria can grow, isnt chloramine a mixture of ammonia and chlorine, my concern was that if the product removed chloramine it would also remove ammonia that i add to the tank onec its full and therefore not provide any food for the bacteria to grow

 

[maestro]

bump, as above does anyone know if it will affect the ammonia i put it, i was goign to start today

 

[guppymonkey]

No dechlorinator removes ammonia. They can remove chlorine and chloramine (i assume that they break it down somehow) but not ammonia. Ammo-lock can turn ammonia into a less lethal form but still doesn't get rid of it.

 

[Pleedin my case]

Some dechlorinators will "neutralize" the amonia from chloramine and It may take a few days to add enought amonia to use up the chems but If you are starting a brand new tank then It does mot matter if you let it sit in a bucket or the tank so go ahead and toss that water in.

Opcn

 

[guppymonkey]

Some dechlorinators will "neutralize" the amonia from chloramine and It may take a few days to add enought amonia to use up the chems but If you are starting a brand new tank then It does mot matter if you let it sit in a bucket or the tank so go ahead and toss that water in.

Opcn

Some chlorinators neutralize chloramines which are NOT ammonia. They are similar to ammonia, I think they are some form of ammonia/chlorine collaboration. Chloramines are also more deadly than ammonia. But chloramines are easier to get rid of then ammonia. Ammonia is either broken down into nitrites in the cycle or added to to make them into a less deadly form which will then just have to be broken down again. Dechlorinators will not mess up the cycling process.

 

[thecichlidaddict]

Chloromines are chlorine bound to ammonia. Good dechlorominators DO neutralize ammonia. That's the point of it.

Dechlorinators work instantly, you can wait a minute, a day, or a month, it will make no difference.

 

[guppymonkey]

Chloromines are chlorine bound to ammonia. Good dechlorominators DO neutralize ammonia. That's the point of it.

Thats not the point of dechlorinators. I don't know where you got that idea from. Dechlorinators take the CHLORINE out of water. Well they don't really take it out, I think they break it down but its the same difference. Ammonia is not chlorine although both are in cleaning products.

 

[thecichlidaddict]

Thats not the point of dechlorinators. I don't know where you got that idea from. Dechlorinators take the CHLORINE out of water. Well they don't really take it out, I think they break it down but its the same difference. Ammonia is not chlorine although both are in cleaning products.

I didn't say good dechlorinators, I said good dechlorominators - dechlorinators that are meant for use with chloromines and they DO neutralize ammonia. Seachem Prime, for example, neutralizes the chlorine and then proceeds to neutralize the ammonia that is left over.

People who have tap water with chloromines in it should remember this when they buy dechlorinator - the normal stuff will leave ammonia in the tank.