How Do Youtreat Your Water Before You Add It?

[shaz3271]

The Seachem Prime should be added to the NEW WATER not the whole tank, although it wont do any particular harm at the correct doses, there is simply no point adding it to the whole tank, unless you have just set up the new tank or done a 75% water change or something

thats what i meant and do

sharon

 

[fry_lover]

whats all this about using hoses from the mains supply?

how the devil you get the temp right? i,e get the temp (from the hose) to match the temp of the water in the tank?

EDIT; for silly post of the day LOL

i guess you use the cold AND hot taps?

 

[santos]

I purchased a python cleaning kit over a year ago. I was always skeptical about treating the tank water and adding city water but after over a year I have not had one single problem. In my experience as long as you have an established tank treating the tank water and adding city water will not cause any problems. I always unplug the filter till after the tank is filled.
P.S. Pythons rule!!!!

 

[andywg]

whats all this about using hoses from the mains supply?

how the devil you get the temp right? i,e get the temp (from the hose) to match the temp of the water in the tank?

EDIT; for silly post of the day LOL

i guess you use the cold AND hot taps?

Nope

Just the cold tap. Why worry about the temp? At 20% changes the amount of water going in is not going to do any damage. the most common thing you might see is the fish spawning in response to cooler water hitting them (such as cories).

Even when doing 40% changes I only see 2 degree C or less changes in the middle of winter. and none of my tanks have heaters in (all in sumps).

 

[fry_lover]

fair enough but thats a "nah" for me to be honest, i make sure the water going is in atleast a similar temp to help prevent shock, i like to keep my parameters as stable as possible. If i had a huge tank (over 100 gallon) i would think about it

I purchased a python cleaning kit over a year ago. I was always skeptical about treating the tank water and adding city water but after over a year I have not had one single problem. In my experience as long as you have an established tank treating the tank water and adding city water will not cause any problems. I always unplug the filter till after the tank is filled.
P.S. Pythons rule!!!!

whats all this reference to "city water" according to the stats (water quality) form the water boards, there is no advantage to living in the "sticks" in terms of water quality from the tap

Ahhh, just noticed your from Canada, maybe its different over there

 

[santos]

Sorry I was referring to city water being chlorinated as opposed to well water

 

[MadMan-JaMeS]

i've just done a 45% water change which was 3 bucket fulls..........

i filled the bucket back up with water added 1ml of the conditioner then put it into the tank obviously the water was warm...done that to all 3 buckets......


can you over do it on the water conditioner cos its says add 1 ml per 75.5l and my tank is 120l so put and extra does in altho it didn't need it

 

[andywg]

Someone on here either contacted a manufacturer or met one at an aquarium club and was told that some are tested to a 50x dose of de-chlor with no ill effects.

However, it has been suggested that sodium thiosulphate will, in the absence of chlorine, react with oxygen dissolved in the water. I have not seen anything from a scientific source on this, just the words of a friend of a member who works for a water board.

I doubt the occasional transgression of up to 2 or 3x the recommended dose will cause any problems.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

yep the temp only becomes a problem if you do a 50% water change, we had this in Ian's planted tank, he's doing EI and therfore does 50% changes every week. His tetra's went into shock a couple of times after water changes, now we just run the water in slowly and the heater has time to do it's work and it's fine.

 

[Teri]

adding dechlorinator to the tank then hosing the water in straight from the mains seems crazy!obviously you guys are doing it and seem more experianced than me ,but am suprised you can get away with it.does is this a common practice.
any body use rainwater?

If I'm doing a water change after a heavy rainfall, then I leave the tap running on the water butt for a few minutes, and then use half rain / half tap water. I only treat the tap water.
I wouldn't use rain water if it hadn't rained for a while,as it looks and smells a bit stagnant in the butt, so I don't want it in my tank!
I usually do a 30% water change, which is 30 litres. It takes ages, as the only way I can accurately work out how much water I'm using is by using 2 litre milk bottles, so I use 12 bottles of cold, and 3 of hot out the kettle! It takes ages to siphon it all in!!

 

[Jules H-T]

May I just add that although the chloramine related posts and concerns are great, Cambridge Water is not chloraminated so it's a bit of a moot point. Phone them up if you want to hear that straight from the horses mouth.

In your area, Cambridge Water's area, I would leave the water to stand for 24 hours and pour it in.