DECHLORINATOR? - lfs closed PLEASE HELP

[Pysgodyn]

I'm doing a water change, transferred water from one tank to the other, and proceeded to refill the initial tank with tap water. Then I noticed I was out of dechlorinator. Would I be able to use the one I use for my coldwater goldfish? (Interpret Gold - Tapsafe) I'm just worried that losing the water volume will have overcrowded my tank overnight if I leave it as it is until I can get to the lfs in the morning PLUS, as it is the water line is beneath the minimum line on the thermometer...so I'm risking damaging the thermometer, or leaving it off - which over here is a no-go area......

EDIT - Also, I would have to leave the filter off all night too...

 

[Tolak]

It should work fine, as long as it takes out chlorine & chloramine.

Tolak

 

[AlexsDaddy]

I have read a in a couple threads on here that you can safley change 20% without dechlorinating, but I haven't tried it myself.

 

[Sky042]

Think about it. The chlorine doesn't care what temperature the water is.

Only thing I've found different is the concentration. The coldwater stuff tends to be geared towards ponds and is more highly concentrated than the tropical stuff.

I use stuff from jungle labs where 8 ounces treats like 2500 gallons.

 

[mlee0332]

I have read a in a couple threads on here that you can safley change 20% without dechlorinating, but I haven't tried it myself.

o yeah! That's absolutely fine. But don't change any more than 20%... It will be so diluted in the water that it won't affect anything, and there actually may be a little dechlor. left in the water. But i would get dechlorinator tomorrow and add some.

 

[rdd1952]

I know you have already had to do whatever you were going to do but the pond dechlorinator is fine. As someone mentioned, it's maybe more concentrated so it may be 1 tsp per 20 gallon instead of per 10 gallon. I wouldn't ever change water without dechlorinating it. Not even 20%. In an emergency, you have to do what you have to do but make sure you add it the next day. In a major emergency, botled water willusually work too but be careful if you have CO2 injection or something like that which can affect your pH. Bottled water has no buffering capacity and you could have a pH crash.

 

[Pysgodyn]

Thanks to you all for your help. I've managed to get some dechlorinator this morning, and everything's hunky-dory now. I'll bear all the above suggestions in mind for when it next happens, but I'm going to make damn sure that it doesn't happen again! (bought the largest bottle possible!)

 

[rdd1952]

It's best to have 2 bottles (one small one stuck back in the closet as spare). The same thing happened to me a while back. Actually I thought I had bought more Stress Coat until I syphoned the water and got ready to fill the tank back up. I then realized that I had picked up a bottle of Stress Zyme by mistake. Fortunately, I had saved the little packs of dechlorinator that came with one of my tanks and used that.