Dechlorinator

[rfisher]

Hi All,

I have probaly a strange question. How quickly does the dechlorinator solution work? I have always used it when I carry out a water change, but only wondered how long it took to dechlorinate the water yesterday when I did the big maintenance.

Rich

 

[The-Wolf]

AFAIK it is instantaneous.

 

[celaeno]

AFAIK it is instantaneous.

where's the proof?

 

[OohFeeshy]

AFAIK it is instantaneous.

where's the proof?

It's a reaction between chemicals in solution, it's likely to be pretty fast.

 

[andywg]

AFAIK it is instantaneous.

where's the proof?

I understand that Tolak had a visit from a chemicals rep and they put a dye in the the water to make the chlorine visible. They then poured the de-chlor in and it worked so close to instant as to make no difference.

It may, however, have been a different member, but I seem to recall it was Tolak.

Circumstantial evidence is there in the large numbers of people with large tanks that just put dechlor in the tank and fill straight from the tank.

 

[The-Wolf]

AFAIK it is instantaneous.

where's the proof?

this would be a suitable topic for the proposed scientific forum

 

[Maxta]

I understand that Tolak had a visit from a chemicals rep and they put a dye in the the water to make the chlorine visible. They then poured the de-chlor in and it worked so close to instant as to make no difference.

Is that why some products have a dye in? My dad has some stuff made by haleox or something (dont quote me), and its blue. When you add it to the water it turns the water a shade of blue instantly.

 

[iairj84]

I think you might be talking about a pond type thing that turns the water blueish color so that it will appear to be more "Waterlike" or something like that. I think that's probably what you mean. I wouldn't use that if it was me, it would probably look more weird than anything. But to answer the original question most of the bottles say it works immediately.

 

[for_my_fish]

the same thing (declorinator) crossed my mind a while back. Then I remembered all the years of (sucessfully) keeping tropical fish before all this knowledge and products came about and concluded that either adding to the bucket of water or into the tank didn't matter as its better than what we all used to do. I now dose the tank as its much easier than doing a dozen smaller measurements into the bucket. If it worries you you can always turn off the filter until the tank is completely full. I prefer to leave them running to mix it all up and keep oxygen mixed in.

 

[Maxta]

Well i was there when my dad bought it, bloke obviously new it was for a tropical aquarium because we had bought tropical fish at the time and asked if he sold dechlorinator, then showed us the product and we bought it. Iv been using it for 2 weeks now, and my dad for 4 weeks. This is the stuff:

http/www.aquariumsuperstore.co.uk/mall/waterlifehaloex.asp

 

[iairj84]

I must've misunderstood, Sorry bout that.... That seems really weird that a product wouldn't advertise on the bottle that it does that but it would turn your water blue. Seems kinda different to me! I think the blue color would bother me more than it would hurt the fish though and I'm sure it works fine as a dechlor... Seems odd that a regular aquarium product would do that. Like I said, I've seen stuff for ponds that does that though.

 

[Maxta]

Yeah i was surprised when i first opened and saw it was blue. The stuff i was using before that i was using Hagen Aqua Plus, which is clear.

Another thing about the Haloex stuff is that it stains pretty well, i poured some into my kitchen sink and it stained it. Strong stuff.

 

[Tolak]

A litle over a year ago we had a rep from Tetra do a demonstration on various water treatments at our monthly club meeting. He used a tagging agent that turned yellow when exposed to chlorine & chloramine. This tagging agent disappeared when the dechlorinator had done what it is supposed to do. This was to show the effectiveness, or lack of, of the various dechlorinators on the market. Water is dechlorinated within a couple of seconds, when the amount needed is added.