The Uses Of Water Conditioner

[Tolak]

As I understand it will remain active for 24-48 hours.

 

[pippoodle]

always added it to the water before putting the water in the tank done this for years for water changes of 5-100%
never had any probs from using it
i use a pond one now as it's even cheaper
i think it's better to use it than to risk the chemicals/minerals hurting the fish

 

[Mikaila31]

I have a well as well, some of my tanks haven't seen a drop of de-chlorinator/conditioner in over a year. I have some Prime on hand incase I ever need something to remove toxins. I do 50% water changes every week and have never experience any problems. I don't think the fish mine, they really seem to like the well water. I changed my water yesterday and I was watching my rainbows spawn/attempt to spawn today . The females were shipped to me using 3 day shipping just last Wednesday.

 

[Amunet]

I overdose dechlor with every water change... mainly b/c I'm too lazy to measure it out properly heh
We also had a rough start w/ cycling our tanks and I'm just too paranoid now to not use any.

 

[sjolliff]

before i bought the said tank i had 10 small perch fry, in a 10 litre tank which had just tap water in only, the fish started to die 1 by 1 untill they was all dead, then i found this site and found out about cycling, so i emptied the tank and put into a black bag,


When i bought the tank which im cycling now tank from new i filled with tap water and added the recommended amount of api stress coat
2 weeks later, hardly any ammonia drop no sign of nitrites and nitrates, so rabbut gave me some of his mature media, 5 days later no change, so he suggested a started again and did a 90% water change (apart from the filter) so i did that added 5ppm of ammonia still no change at this point i was up to about 35days in my fishless cycle.

last sat when i moved the old (fry) tank i heard a bit of water, so i decided to test it, 0 ammonia and nitrites and nitrates really high,

i thought this was wierd, my old tank with just water is cycling and my new tank is not?

so i put a litre of water from the current tank ( which showed 1.5ppm ammonia) im cycling into the old one, i tested it 24 hrs later NO nitrites or nitrates
and still 1.5ppm of ammonia,

I was told to go sparing with the stress coat, thats why i added exactlly how much it said, but it looks like the stress coat stopped my original cycle then killed the bacs in my old tank

last monday i change 90% of the water in my current tank, added only tap water nothing else then added mature media from a friends pond,

and allready ready my nitrites are flying up as well as my nitrates, ammonia going down nicely, and today i had a big ph drop (6.2)

which happens during a cycle

 

[bagu]

i OD on declor

buts thats an interesting read!

 

[sjolliff]

i dont understand, its the onlt hing this time i have not put in and my tank is cycling spot on,

i might have a dodgy bottle, its still in date

 

[sjolliff]

Just tested a few hours after adding some stress coat to the glass sample from my cycling tank

bear in mind that my cycling tank has just hit the nitrite spike and nitrates very high

no nitrites or nitrates, if this would of been in my tank i would have to start again