What Does Chloramines Mean

[grimmy]

ive heard of it has something to do with ammonia

 

[K.J.]

I believe it's something added to water, like chlorine, but takes longer to dissipate.

 

[Tolak]

It's a combination of chlorine & ammonia, which doesn't gas out anywhere near as easily as chlorine. It's used by larger municipal water suppliers for the most part, as with longer runs of pipe in a large system chlorine will dissapate.

 

[afishdude]

aquasafe and prime will take this out
but sorry grimmy salt wont.

 

[grimmy]

how bout start right

 

[afishdude]

grimmy, here is a quote from jungle website

A complete water conditioner, Jungle Aquarium Start Right Crystals removes chlorine, chloramine and heavy metals while adding electrolytes. Also guards against secondary infection while stimulating the natural secretion of slimes that protect fish from handling, shipping, fish fighting and other forms of stress.
Size: 16 oz. (treats 960 gallons)

 

[Tolak]

http/www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/rev-cond.htm

Watch the water conditioners that say they remove chlorine & chloramine with no mention of removing ammonia. They will break the chlorine/ammonia bond in chloramine, neuteralize the chlorine, and leave you with ammonia. This slight amount of ammonia will be taken care of by your nitrifying bacteria, in the mean time your fish will be exposed to a slight amount of ammonia.

The conditioners that state that they remove ammonia actually convert it to ammonium, which is used the same as ammonia by your nitrifying bacteria.

 

[afishdude]

grimmy conisder using prime its only $5 for a 100ml bottle and one capfull treats 50g. so its alot cheaper than start right or aquasafe.

 

[Musho3210]

plus prime has ammonia detoxifying properties.

 

[Dorkhedeos]

Only thing i dont like about prime is the smell its my favorite conditioner though

Edit:Oh yeah, i forgot to mention that its super concentrated too

 

[grimmy]

i will after i will use mt start right or could i use ammo lock and start right combine or is that bad to do

 

[grimmy]

or bout this combined with startrighthttp/www.petsolutions.com/WOW-Sludge-Remover-Biological-Booster+I64000122+C10391.aspx

 

[grimmy]

hello

 

[Dorkhedeos]

Please dont post 3 times in a row. You didnt get a reply because its so early in the morning(at least where im from). I know there are always people on the forum, but some are just browsing through and dont feel like responding at times like that. Why would you use start right or ammolock in the first place? If your tank is cycled already, you are pretty much just throwing money away and loading your tank up with more chemicals than you need. Its nice to have ammolock around just in case something happens and you get an ammonia spike, but this rarely happens. Nobody is stopping you from adding all these useless stuff to your tank so go ahead if you want, its your money.

 

[afishdude]

^^^ agree.

if you want to wast all that money go for it! if you want to spend $2 a month use prime. it does what all those products you stated does in one bottle.