Just Added Water Conditioner Right To Tank....be Worried?

[watertown28]

Just added water conditioner right to tank....I then was pumping out old water and putting in fresh water right from the tap into the tank via a hose. I watched my meter and added 5 cf of water which is my understanding is 20 gallons of water.

Now, before I turned my pump back on I added 10 mL of jungle water treatment. That is what it calls for. I added it right to the tank.

With that said....I stopped ( of course AFTER THE FACT ) and thought about it... did I do that right? Or should I have added the total water volumes worth of water for the total tank?

 

[Prime Ordeal]

When you add conditioner into the tank (as opposed to the new water) you have to add enough for the whole volume of the tank.

 

[watertown28]

When you add conditioner into the tank (as opposed to the new water) you have to add enough for the whole volume of the tank.

O dang not good. I just ran down right off after I read you post and added another 6 caps worth. I hope I did not kill my bio filter.

 

[Prime Ordeal]

When you add conditioner into the tank (as opposed to the new water) you have to add enough for the whole volume of the tank.

O dang not good. I just ran down right off after I read you post and added another 6 caps worth. I hope I did not kill my bio filter.

It'll depend on how chlorinated your supply is but you almost certainly won't have killed the filter off completely. You may have a brief mini-cycle though, just keep an eye on the ammonia and nitrite for the next day.

 

[m_attt]

going by new studys you wont of done any damage to bacteria

i beleive it as i washed a mature filter well under a tap, added it to a new tank with ammonia rich substrate less than two weeks amonia = 0

 

[Spurry]

i fill from tap to tanks with no probs, fiter of, drain water, add prime [thats my conditioner] fill from tap, about 30mins after tank is full
i turn filters back on, test water a few days later and all good

 

[watertown28]

When you add conditioner into the tank (as opposed to the new water) you have to add enough for the whole volume of the tank.

O dang not good. I just ran down right off after I read you post and added another 6 caps worth. I hope I did not kill my bio filter.

It'll depend on how chlorinated your supply is but you almost certainly won't have killed the filter off completely. You may have a brief mini-cycle though, just keep an eye on the ammonia and nitrite for the next day.

Ehhh...was doing that anyways because I added 5 fish to that tank. Here I was happy about not having to do a back breaking thing, to find out that I should have. Though I am looking at getting prime now due to not having to do so many water changes anymore ( one a week x 4 tanks instead of every other day )

i fill from tap to tanks with no probs, fiter of, drain water, add prime [thats my conditioner] fill from tap, about 30mins after tank is full
i turn filters back on, test water a few days later and all good

Yeah I did not wait more than maybe 5 minutes.

With that said I am going to test the water shortly and then again tomorrow. I had a little ammonia and NO2 spike there now that the new fish are added... hence the water change.

 

[m_attt]

Have a read

 

[watertown28]

Have a read

The question on that is ( I was reading that when you first posted it a week or 2 ago ) ...is this something that is becoming a known fact? Its one of those things I am not sure I feel comfortable playing with when I got 20 fishies swimming around in a tank.

 

[m_attt]

Ive not used de-chlorinator in years, and always washed my filters/media trays under a tap and never had any issues, illness or disease in any tank. Have also never personally seen any evidence of wiping out a filter colony.

 

[CezzaXV]

It's generally believed that there isn't enough chlorine in normal tap water to kill off a bacterial colony like ours. It's not going to do it much good and I wouldn't recommend doing it on a regular basis, but it's not going to do any long term damage to your tank. You might wanna test your water for the next few days to make sure you don't go through a mini-cycle, but in all honesty I think that's unlikely.

 

[hackmaster]

I've taken the info on nitrifiying bacteria being found in our water systems, and taken my own experiment...

I have been doing water changes in my tank and had no mini cycles or ammonia rises... Nitrite nil and nitrate at 5ppm

 

[Prime Ordeal]

Ive not used de-chlorinator in years, and always washed my filters/media trays under a tap and never had any issues, illness or disease in any tank. Have also never personally seen any evidence of wiping out a filter colony.

With all due respect m_attt that's like saying 'I live in London and not once have I been attacked by a Lion'.

If you can put tap water directly into your tank and the fish show no reaction then you have very low chlorine/chloramine concentration in your water and then, of course, it also won't hurt the filter if you wash it in it either.

Same goes for hackmaster above.

 

[CezzaXV]

Ive not used de-chlorinator in years, and always washed my filters/media trays under a tap and never had any issues, illness or disease in any tank. Have also never personally seen any evidence of wiping out a filter colony.

With all due respect m_attt that's like saying 'I live in London and not once have I been attacked by a Lion'.

If you can put tap water directly into your tank and the fish show no reaction then you have very low chlorine/chloramine concentration in your water and then, of course, it also won't hurt the filter if you wash it in it either.

Same goes for hackmaster above.

I disagree. Doing say a 50% water change would be exposing the filter to a 50-50 mix of old tank water and new chlorinated tap water. Washing the filter pads under the tap is obviously 100% tap water with the full effect of however much chlorine is in the water. Not the same thing.

 

[Prime Ordeal]

Ive not used de-chlorinator in years, and always washed my filters/media trays under a tap and never had any issues, illness or disease in any tank. Have also never personally seen any evidence of wiping out a filter colony.

With all due respect m_attt that's like saying 'I live in London and not once have I been attacked by a Lion'.

If you can put tap water directly into your tank and the fish show no reaction then you have very low chlorine/chloramine concentration in your water and then, of course, it also won't hurt the filter if you wash it in it either.

Same goes for hackmaster above.

I disagree. Doing say a 50% water change would be exposing the filter to a 50-50 mix of old tank water and new chlorinated tap water. Washing the filter pads under the tap is obviously 100% tap water with the full effect of however much chlorine is in the water. Not the same thing.

The point is that m_attt clearly states in an earlier post that he adds water directly to the tank without the use of dechlorinator - and infers from that that there is no need for anyone to use a dechlorinator. I can assure you that the concentration in his source water will be extremely low or his fish would now be dead (if for example the chloramine level was at a not untypical 0.5-1ppm). At the very least there would be a very noticeable reaction to even low chlorine/chloramine levels.

So what exactly are you disagreeing with?

Are you agreeing with m_attt and saying that we don't need to use dechlorinators? In which case hooray, there's a few quid saved. It doesn't really match your usual effusive praise and unconditional recommendation for the use of Seachem Prime though, does it?