IndiaHawker
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Bought some online to use for measuring water conditioner as I now bought a more concentrated one and am working with a 57L tank - will also be using these to dose plant food as once again it's pretty concentrated. They're single-use only - but I can't see it doing much harm in this context to reuse them (obviously using separate syringes for conditioner and plant food, and anything else I may need them for in future). Just seems wasteful to throw them away after one use if I don't need to - but wanted to check with the experts first!
Also related question - my tank is called '57L', however I know tanks don't actually hold their full volume in water due to fillings such as rocks, substrate, etc. Recently bought stepped buckets with the litres measured up the side, and upon my most recent water change, realised that taking the water level down to roughly halfway down the tank was only about 20L. So I'm a little worried about overdosing my tank now. I've always taken the litres at face value when using water conditioner, actually rounding it up and accounting for 60L of water when measuring how much conditioner I'm putting in, as really worried about causing chlorine burn and killing/really hurting all my fish. I'm more worried now as the conditioner I will be using this sunday/monday is much more concentrated (Seachem Prime).
Assuming last time, I took the water level down to halfway or possibly just over, which was 20L. Then should I only account for 40L when dosing conditioner next time? Although the rocks are mostly filling up the bottom of the tank, and obviously the substrate too. And the wood is also more in the bottom than the top. So does that mean that I should actually account for LESS than 40L of water, since if I was to remove the last of the water, it may have only appeared half full but really because of the decor maybe there was only 10-15L of water left? So then I'd dose according to 30-35L of water - which doesn't seem like enough to put in a 57L tank? Or should I just dose for 57L of water? Sorry as you can tell I have OCD and am worrying over this hahah
I've heard that both overdosing and overdosing are bad and should be avoided (although I know some will say that overdosing is fine and safe from what I've seen online, but I've heard that's far from true). But from what I gather underdosing is more dangerous (short term at least) as they can all just die really quickly from the chlorine? So I'm unsure how much to dose and would appreciate advice for this tank!
As always, please and thank you, it's appreciated!
Also related question - my tank is called '57L', however I know tanks don't actually hold their full volume in water due to fillings such as rocks, substrate, etc. Recently bought stepped buckets with the litres measured up the side, and upon my most recent water change, realised that taking the water level down to roughly halfway down the tank was only about 20L. So I'm a little worried about overdosing my tank now. I've always taken the litres at face value when using water conditioner, actually rounding it up and accounting for 60L of water when measuring how much conditioner I'm putting in, as really worried about causing chlorine burn and killing/really hurting all my fish. I'm more worried now as the conditioner I will be using this sunday/monday is much more concentrated (Seachem Prime).
Assuming last time, I took the water level down to halfway or possibly just over, which was 20L. Then should I only account for 40L when dosing conditioner next time? Although the rocks are mostly filling up the bottom of the tank, and obviously the substrate too. And the wood is also more in the bottom than the top. So does that mean that I should actually account for LESS than 40L of water, since if I was to remove the last of the water, it may have only appeared half full but really because of the decor maybe there was only 10-15L of water left? So then I'd dose according to 30-35L of water - which doesn't seem like enough to put in a 57L tank? Or should I just dose for 57L of water? Sorry as you can tell I have OCD and am worrying over this hahah
I've heard that both overdosing and overdosing are bad and should be avoided (although I know some will say that overdosing is fine and safe from what I've seen online, but I've heard that's far from true). But from what I gather underdosing is more dangerous (short term at least) as they can all just die really quickly from the chlorine? So I'm unsure how much to dose and would appreciate advice for this tank!
As always, please and thank you, it's appreciated!