Nutrafin Aqua Plus

[alan3513]

Hi, Think i'm being stupid hear but i'm reading the directions for adding Aqua plus to my tap water. It says- To remove chlorine add 10mls per 70 litres. To remove chloramine add 10 mls per 35 litres. Does this mean i've got to add a dose for each ?. i.e. about 20 mls to remove the chlorine and 40mls to remove the chloramine, a total of 60mls if i was filling my 125 litre tank from empty. This is more than half my 100mls bottle (which says on the side enough for 700litres) , Can anyone clear this up for me, thanks

 

[AdAndrews]

follow chloramine dose as u need to get rid of that 2, you dnt have to do 2 doses, follow the second dose as it will lock up the chlorine as well

good luck, so it would end up being about 40 ml

 

[alan3513]

Thanks for that, thought i was losing it

 

[waterdrop]

Your water will only come from one local water authority. Any given water authority will use either chlorine OR chloramine, not both. It should not be too hard to find, either via web page or phone calls, which method your water authority uses. Once you have that answer, you have the potential of saving a bit of money if its only chlorine they use.

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[backtotropical]

..........or you could ditch the Nutrafin stuff because it's stupid expensive, and consider buying pond dechlorinator instead. It's the same stuff, just more concentrated, so you need to use less. It usually works out about 1/20th the price of premium brand aquarium dechlorinators like Nutrafin.

Hope that tip saves you a bit cash. I'll never even consider aquarium dechlor again!!

BTT

 

[waterdrop]

Yes, definately! Pond dechlor is the cheapest. Seems to be the latest best idea going around among the members here. BTT, what brand has worked for you?

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[Nick16]

i use kockney koi stuff. got it on ebay.

 

[alan3513]

Thanks again for the advice, will phone water company on monday. Thanks also for the heads up regarding the Nutrafin aqua, didn't realise it was expensive as it came with my start up pack when i bought my Fluval Roma tank.

 

[backtotropical]

Yes, definately! Pond dechlor is the cheapest. Seems to be the latest best idea going around among the members here. BTT, what brand has worked for you?

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Same brand as Nick, Kockney Koi from Ebay. However, any brand will do. Just make sure it deals with all the right stuff, chlorine, chloramine, heavy metals and ammonia.

Which dechlorinator are you using, WD?

BTT

 

[Nick16]

do you buy 500ml bottles? it works out soo cheap, i have to fill a rio 240 soon, so if i used 'aquarium' dechlor it would cost me about £12-£15, where as pond stuff its about £2 or less. as a guess

 

[backtotropical]

I have a Juwel Vision 260 (260 litres) in which I change around 30% of the water every week (call it 75 litres).

1ml of Kockney Koi treats 75 litres of water, so I use 1ml per water change (handy, eh?).

I did buy the 500ml bottle, and at 1ml per week, that makes the bottle last me 500 water changes, or somewhere in the region of 9 and a half years!!!

It cost me £8, so that works out at £0.84 per year. Can't beat it really!!

I think in 9 years time when it runs out I'll buy the 1 litre bottle which should almost last me forever!!

Cheers

BTT

 

[Nick16]

i meant to put £0.02 or 2p but i forgot the 0's. when i change 75l i use about 2 or 3ml as i always like to be safe and plus its hard to et 1 drop out of a pipette!

 

[backtotropical]

I usually double dose too just to be safe, but even then it's still about 10 times cheaper than aquarium equivalents.

You should get a syringe to measure it with. Much easier! You should be able to get one from your pharmacist for only a few pence.

 

[Nick16]

i do have one im just soo lazy!!! i have a 3ml pipette that i normally fill about 2/3rds of the way up so it works out ok.

 

[waterdrop]

Yes, definately! Pond dechlor is the cheapest. Seems to be the latest best idea going around among the members here. BTT, what brand has worked for you?

~~waterdrop~~

Same brand as Nick, Kockney Koi from Ebay. However, any brand will do. Just make sure it deals with all the right stuff, chlorine, chloramine, heavy metals and ammonia.

Which dechlorinator are you using, WD?

BTT

Well, its been sad but perhaps our nicest LFS (if I'm willing to drive an hour one way) is going out of business and I got a pretty large Prime as well as a number of Flourish products really cheap, so I'm still using the Prime and I don't need that much since Oliver's tank is not that big.

Hey, BTT, any idea if these conditioners use pure EDTA chelators as the thing that wraps up the heavy metals? (not that one would be reading about EDTA when one should be working on his heavy numericals, lol.)

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