Water Change Without Conditioner

[Pidgecbr600rr]

Did a water change earlier and realised 30 mins later i hadnt conditioned the water... doh!

Just wondering how long it takes for chlorine to destroy a filter

Its a 70ltr tank swapped about 20ltrs of water and 30 mins later added a 70ltr dose of conditioner, also brought some cycle and added that a few hrs later, but i'm just worried if it could have significantly damaged the bacteria in the 30mins

Gonna monitor it over the next week for amonia just incase.

I couldnt find a previous topic about this, but i'm sure i'm not the only person to have fogot to do this in the past.

 

[Christine1014]

You're not the only one!! My husband did the same thing a few weeks ago, and I did the same thing you did to try to fix it, minus using the Cycle. I remember hearing somewhere that if your tank is fully cycled, this isn't a disaster ... I checked my water stats daily for the next 10 days or so, and everything remained fine. My fish probably weren't happy for a while, but everybody survived.

 

[Tolak]

I intentionally did this a while back, on a 20 gallon angel growout tank. There is a topic somewhere here about the bacteria that grow in a municipal water supply's pipes that convert chlorine, chloramine & ammonia to basically harmless substances, similar to the nitrifying bacteria in regars to ammo & nitrites.

I did a 50% wc with no dechlor, and after watching for a couple of hours saw no ill effects. I added declor since I had other things to do, the fish did fine, grew out the same as the other angels in another 20 gallon, and got sold long ago.


I'll try to find a link to that article.