Water Change From Boiler

[BigbruiserAl]

I am NOT in the Prime gang

with 3 tanks you should be!

 

[CezzaXV]

When I first started doing water changes I was told not to use the hot tap because of dissolved copper in the water, so I started boiling water in the kettle. Then I was told not to do that because of possible limescale in the kettle! There was no way I was going to be standing around boiling pans of water (that was an accident waiting to happen) so now I just use the tap with no ill effects.

I'm another who has to sing the praises of Prime. I started off with a big bottle of the Tetra stuff, but several 90% water changes during my cycle saw a 250ml bottle of that off in no time. Then I bought a 500ml bottle of Prime and even with overdosing, I've hardly made a dent in it. Should last me a year at the very least! There's really no reason not to use Prime.

 

[OldMan47]

The way to avoid problems with copper pipes is to let the hot water run until it comes hot from the faucet. By then the water in the pipes has flushed out and you will get almost no dissolved copper in the mix.

If you use a dechlorinator for a water change you treat the water being changed while it is still in the bucket. If you feed the water straight into the tank though a hose you treat for the whole tank. The difference is that dechlorinator becomes de-activated by being in the presence of organic materials which abound in a fish tank. There are no organics to speak of in the bucket. When used in the tank itself it takes far more dechlorinator to do the same work on the chlorine. That is why they tell you to treat for the whole volume.

 

[Tizer]

My bottle of Prime arrived yesterday :>

 

[Louiseness]

Just chiming in to say I've always used hot water straight from the tap, both from a combi boiler and one of the tank type ones with absolutely no problems at all. Always had shrimp of some sort too and presumably if there was a copper issue they wouldn't have survived.

 

[Tizer]

I've used hot water from the kettle too! mostly to bring empty tanks up to temerature though