Chlorine In My Water With My Fish!

[LikkleFishy]

In late December/early January I thought it would be nice to set up a tropical fish tank, so I bought a 160 litre tank to do so.
I slowly followed all the steps into setting it up, and added firstly tiger barbs, then red honey gouramis, then clown loaches, corydoras and an albino bristlenose catfish, we were then going to procede with buying a pair of silver sharks and a turtle. This is until there is an outbreak of disease in the gourami and corydoras, all die except one gourami, which we give back to the shop in hope of it's survival (Tiger barbs were bullying it). After leaving the tank to settle for a long while, we go back to the shop and buy some logs, and are told to soak them in tap water for 48 hours, then we can come back and buy a turtle. But I forgot to soak the logs in a bucket of aquasafe before I added them to the tank, does this matter? It wasn't dripping in the slightest but my family seem to think the bacteria will die and so might the fish, and that the wood has absorbed lots of chlorine as it was being soaked. Or will the aquasafe neutralise the chlorine? I really am unsure.

I would be really grateful if somebody could reassure me that I'm just being paranoid...

 

[shelaghfishface]

in my opinion, i would do a water change adding the apprpriate amount of aquasafe back to the water, do a water test before the water change so you know where you stand,then do as many water changes as needed to bring everyting back to normal ( assuming something is wrong)

im not an expert this is what i would do tho

good luck and dont worry

shelagh xxx

 

[LikkleFishy]

Well I tested the water and it looks fine 0.0
But I suppose it doesn't test for chlorine...

I really have no idea what I'm doing...

And anyway the tank is at about 5/6 of the water level it should be as we set it for that darn fish eating turtle (which, by the way we are not getting), so we need to add more water as it is. I really want to hear a range of opinions before I do anything... Thanks though!

 

[shelaghfishface]

thats ok, you should be getting a reading for nitrate on your test.
i have no idea about turtles,so cant help. but i do hope you get it all sorted today, just so you can stop worrying about it

good luck
shelaghxxx

 

[LikkleFishy]

Thanks!
Any other suggestions... Anyone?

 

[Saedcantas]

Any remaining chlorine in the wood should probably dissipate by itself. I doubt there was any anyway though.

What water tests/water testing kit do you have?

 

[LikkleFishy]

Oh um, ' OASE Aqua activ quicksticks'
All the fish look fine except one, one tiger barb is being pretty still and hiding underneath one of the logs whilst all the others are swimming around. D:
And it looks slightly fat, but there was always one fat one...

 

[raptorrex]

In late December/early January I thought it would be nice to set up a tropical fish tank, so I bought a 160 litre tank to do so.
I slowly followed all the steps into setting it up, and added firstly tiger barbs, then red honey gouramis, then clown loaches, corydoras and an albino bristlenose catfish, we were then going to procede with buying a pair of silver sharks and a turtle. This is until there is an outbreak of disease in the gourami and corydoras, all die except one gourami, which we give back to the shop in hope of it's survival (Tiger barbs were bullying it). After leaving the tank to settle for a long while, we go back to the shop and buy some logs, and are told to soak them in tap water for 48 hours, then we can come back and buy a turtle. But I forgot to soak the logs in a bucket of aquasafe before I added them to the tank, does this matter? It wasn't dripping in the slightest but my family seem to think the bacteria will die and so might the fish, and that the wood has absorbed lots of chlorine as it was being soaked. Or will the aquasafe neutralise the chlorine? I really am unsure.

I would be really grateful if somebody could reassure me that I'm just being paranoid...

i see why you are worried. but i think you may be getting to wound up on this. much of the chlorine will have "gassed" out of the container the wood was in. any that does remain will do the same thing as it leaches and then gasses out of your tank. but you can de-chlorinate at any time, and it works almost immediately. as you change the water weekly you will add more, so any chlorine that does leach will be dealt with by that!

take a deep breath, relax, we have, and do, all make mistakes. the trick is not to make them again.

 

[LikkleFishy]

Thankyou
Reassured me there, but I think I'll make a new thread about my tiger barb now...