Aquarium Dechlorinator

[mitch70]

As the title, when you are doing your weekly water change how much dechlorinator do you use? do you use the exact recommended amount? or do you overdose?
 
Do you add it to each bucket or do you add at the end in one go?
 
Just interested in peoples routine

 

[Lillefishy]

I stick to the right dose & only dechlorinate the new water.
I'm thrifty so don't waste any & make it last longer

 

[laurac94]

Depends on what fish you have, I always over dose my piranha tank by a few ml because they nip eachothers fins quite often and it replaces their slime coat ;-) I usually dose exact other than that, unless there has been some nipping going on;-)

 

[Blondielovesfish]

I always dose 5mL on each 10L bucket for my 5 gallon tank. 5mL is enough for the whole tank but it doesn't do any harm and I'd rather overdose than under dose.

 

[Ch4rlie]

I put in 5ml into a bucket with 10 litres tap water and have another bucket with 5 litres but don't add any dechlorinator to that one. Then leave water in buckets for 45 mins to an hour or so while I clean tank and sort out bits & pieces etc, just so that water equalises little bit and goes up a bit towards to room temp then into tank. I don't put any in more dechlorinator as 5ml is enough for 20 litres.
 
I'd much rather overdose a wee bit rather than under dosing!
 
Just getting into habit of doing this as doing Fishless Cycle at the mo, so then I have a bit of practice and know what should be done before putting in little fishies into tank!!! 

 

[mitch70]

I always tend to overdose slightly just incase, I use a 10 gallon bucket and dose direct into that, I may have to be a bit more thrifty it is costing me a fortune!
 
 
 
oops I mean 10 litre bucket

 

[Zante]

I mix RO water with tap water, and dechlorinate only the tap water with the stated dose. I have a whole set of syringes of various sizes, so dosing is easy.

 

[kevingrods]

i usually put an extra 5 ml in just to be safe.  worst case it will help the fish that got in a couple battles...

 

[coolie]

There is no need to overdose. Even if you did end up with a small amount of chlorine in the water, it would be so dilute it would be inconsequential.
The second reason, a recent study actually added chloramine as an aquarium additive in lab conditions and found it was useful as an antibacterial agent despite it being toxic at higher levels.

 

[KirkyArcher]

Yes water conditioner/dechlorinators are one of the few additives you can get away with an overdose, but there is no reason not to stick with recommendations, I have no doubt  that the manufacturers are getting us to use more than is required anyway so that they can sell more of the stuff to us 

 

[wrightt3]

I have no doubt  that the manufacturers are getting us to use more than is required anyway so that they can sell more of the stuff to us 

Conspiracy!!!

 

[Arcticfox1977]

I use prime and dose 0.7ml to every 10l bucket.
I don't know if this is enough or too little.