How Do I Remove Chlorine Etc

[Minstrel]

Without anything to put in the water? My stuff had run out yesterday and dearest hubby didn't tell me, I have now started a water change and now obviously cannot get anything until tomorrow at the earliest as I am in Scotland and there is no shops open that will stock any!!!! Please help!

 

[fluttermoth]

What sort of % change are you doing, OP?

 

[Minstrel]

What sort of % change are you doing, OP?

50% and I am only one bucket away from it, really I cannot turn on the heater and 2nd filter without adding more water.

 

[fluttermoth]

You should be okay, honestly. Loads of people do 50% water changes without dechlorinating.
 
Just get it deep enough to switch your stuff back on, to be on the safe side. If you can pour it about a bit, or aerate for a while before you add it, that would help too.
 
Is your tank fairly well established and how heavily is it stocked?

 

[Minstrel]

You should be okay, honestly. Loads of people do 50% water changes without dechlorinating.
 
Just get it deep enough to switch your stuff back on, to be on the safe side. If you can pour it about a bit, or aerate for a while before you add it, that would help too.
 
Is your tank fairly well established and how heavily is it stocked?

It was well established but then I had an ammonia spike and lost a lot of fish, I only have 5 left in there now and I am desperately trying to save an angel who has been getting pulled out of ammonia poisoning so I don't think I would be safe?

 

[fluttermoth]

I still think you'd be okay; I did a 50% chlorinated water change on my oscar when he scraped his head as a sort of medication and he was fine.
 
If you can not top it all the way, but enough to get your heater and filter working, you'd be fine, IMO. Go slowly, and as I said, give it a good pour from one bucket to another before you add it.

 

[Minstrel]

I still think you'd be okay; I did a 50% chlorinated water change on my oscar when he scraped his head as a sort of medication and he was fine.
 
If you can not top it all the way, but enough to get your heater and filter working, you'd be fine, IMO. Go slowly, and as I said, give it a good pour from one bucket to another before you add it.

Thank you for your help, fish keeping has sure been stressful of late!

 

[Chad]

Chlorine will naturally dissipate in about 48 hours at room temperature. So really all you need to do is leave the water in an open container for a couple of days and you're good to go.

 

[fluttermoth]

The OP can't really leave her filters off for 48 hours though, Chad!

 

[Chad]

I meant do this before adding the water to the tank.
 
If they are out of dechlorinator and need to do a water change they would leave the water out for 48 hours then do the water change.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

Filling up as high as needed now to put the heater, etc on will be fine.  Adding an airstone to the bucket will lessen the time for the chlorine to dissipate.  And you can then fill up the rest of the way tomorrow.

 

[Chad]

I was just researching if there was a way to speed it up and read that with higher heat and air the time is reduced to around 12 hours.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

You could have just asked me.   (Although I didn't know the heat part, but it does make sense now that I think about it.)

 

[Chad]

My friend has a pool. I asked him. He said it's an issue here when it gets so hot that he's having to add it more often.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

Yup, makes sense.  Just like hotter water holds less oxygen, it would hold less chlorine (or more exactly be less capable of holding on to it).
 
 
It does get hot out your way.  You and your friends would be heat experts.