Help On Water Conditioner Please?

[Trienchieu]

Since I been using the water conditioner that came with my betta kit, it was pretty easy to use. But now I want to use my old tetra Aquasafe, how do I give the correct dose for my half gallon tank? The direction says 5ml for 10 gallon, so I was thinking of doing 1ml for my half gallon. It's overdose I know but will it hurt the fish? It's hard to be accurate with aquasafe with a small tank. Oh btw whats the difference between the betta water conditioner and a regular water conditioner like tetra aqua safe

 

[KittyKat]

It's better to double dose than under-dose. Have you considered using a pipette which you can measure out 1/2 or 1/4 ml amounts with? (What a weird concept, measuring volume in ml and gallons at the same time!)

The difference between Betta dechlorinator and normal dechlorinator is that you get charged a lot more for the Betta stuff.

p.s. I strongly recommend that you consider getting a 5-10 gallon tank for the Betta.

 

[Trienchieu]

Yea I know but I got this as a gift and I'm a student, I don't have the budget or room to buy a big tank, but thank you though. I did the math, if I do 1ml for my half gallon, that would be twice as much as the directions says.

 

[ripil]

get a one gallon bucket. do your 1ml dose fill up your tank as required and then you haven't overdosed at all. actually if your only doing a partial water change you'll not be overdosing at all that way.

 

[This Old Spouse]

Or get a 1-gallon container, dose the whole thing and just use it as you need it.

 

[Trienchieu]

I'm sorry I think I didn't make sense ok, the directions says 5 ml for 10 gallon, so i wanted to do 1ml of dechlorinator since its easy to tell. However the 1 ml dechlorinator is use for a 2 gallon. So that would be over dose if I add 1 ml to my half gallon tank, so I'm asking is it ok to overdose by adding 1 ml to my half gallon tank?

Oh I see now, so you want me to get a bucket and dose that and leave the remaining for next time? I guess that would work but it would be lots of extra work

 

[StandbySetting]

A quadruple over dose is nothing to worry about, absolutely fine.

 

[This Old Spouse]

I understood you. Did you understand me? I don't mean a 1-gallon container for your fish, just to store treated water.

If you put 1 ml in your half-gallon tank, your overdosing 4X, not 2X, which is risky, IMO.

 

[Trienchieu]

Yea I re read your post and I see, I can do that too since I have to change my big tank as well on the same day as the betta's tank I understand now. Thanks!

 

[Tolak]

there's 20 drops per ml, on average, of liquids the viscosity of water. Dechlorinator, or most any water conditioner is close enough to the viscosity of water to use this. 10 drops for 1 gallon with that product, 5 for a half gallon at their suggested concentration. I usually double up on dechlorinator, I don't trust my water supplier.

 

[Dieses Madchen]

it would be .25ml of conditioner but I would use at least a half ml to be safe.