What dechlorinator do you recommend?

[Rory the cat]

no uk water is that bad...granted there are areas with very high nitrates but i sure as hell wouldnt be making things worse bu adding all kids of crap that supposedly helps.

yours is certainly not ideal but you should still be able to have can have zero nitrites and lowish nitrates as long as you do regular water changes. once chloramine is broken down you will get readings (on some tests)for ammonia anyway but it will only be ammonium

still cant see a problem

Okay - tap water 75 - 100 m/l nitrate, trace nitrite, 0.3-0.5 ammonia. Even after 24/48 hours of standing. Pretty bad wouldn't you say? I have even contacted local water company to find out best times to draw water etc. Using their advice (and LFS advice), with treatment & standing the best I can get it to is 10ml nitrate, trace nitrite and 0.1 amm. Have tried several treatments - stresscoat works best for me.

It may be true that the ammonia kit could be giving false readings for ammonium - I do hope so. I am going to change test kits from tablet to liquid once this one is finished and see where it gets me.

But whatever, have been doing anything from 10 - 50% water changes daily for just about 2 months and getting no-where with it, same readings times in and time out. The only time things have started to improve are with using stress-coat, stress-zyme and nitrivec (which I did not want to add, but got v. desperate). Today I have finally gotten to zero ammonia for the first time in both tanks!

I will continue this course of treatment until readings are stable for a week and then see where I am. I am not willing to keep using these treatments (except stress-coat to dechlorinate) for a long period, but they are achieving in 3 days what I couldn't do in 8 weeks with water changes and filtration alone.

 

[freshmike]

I use Hagen Aquaplus. I think it's very good value for money as it can also be used as a stress reliever like stress coat as well as getting rid of chlorine and chloramine.

I use this too. Buy it by the gallon...has a pump! lol.... Seems to be everything I need....I have the seachem stuff too, but have never tried it....

 

[Sky042]

I usually use Jungle Labs Insto Chlor or their Start Right. But I think I'm going to order a jug of the Big Als conditioner thats supposed to be their own (identical) version of Stress Coat.

 

[Bol]

I used to use BioSafe by Marineland, but couldn't take the smell.
Now, I tend to use Seachem's Prime for my large tank (it's very concentrated -- 1 ml per 10 gallons), BioCoat for my smaller tanks (simply because I have a bottle to finish), and NovAqua while medicating.