Angelfish water requierments

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I know some people are able to use fresh tap water for their fish without aging it to de-chlorinate it. I just got the water report from my city and it lists all the contaminants we have.

the added cleaning elements are
Chlorine .2-.4 ppm
Trihalomethanes 7-16 ppb
Haloacetic acids 6-14 ppb

I assume that even a trace of chlorine is bad. What level of chlorine would be ok? Are there other contaminants I should watch out for?
 
I would think that as long as you use Prime or another good de-chlorinater that you would be fine. The only other thing you would want to check for (AFAIK) is ammonia.
 
Just use a dechlorinator like Prime. No chlorine is good. You might be able to get away with a miniscule amount, and I mean like a few drops of chlorinated water in a 20g tank. But, you definitely need to remove the chlorine. Get one that says it removes chlorine and chloramines for best results.

Some people still "age" their water by sitting it in a bucket/tub/jar overnight to gas off the chlorine, but that's cumbersome and unnecessary with the quality dechlorinators we have now.

Basically, good clean water is the only requirement as far as that goes. PH doesn't really matter as long as it is constant, and they were acclimated to it. Lots of people freak out about pH, but most fish will do just fine regardless of pH as long as we don't try to mess with it. IMHO, pH UP and pH Down and the like should be banned! There are better ways to more naturally change your pH (using crushed coral, etc. to go up or driftwood, etc to go down) if you absolutely need to (like with discus). Or just get a different kind of fish that can handle your pH.

Temp should be tropical. Like 76-80, I believe. Don't quote me on that though.
 
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