Cheap Tap Water Conditioner - Sodium Thiosulphate ?

nagukush

nagukush

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Hi Friends,

Just wanted to request for some guidance here.

I'm using API Amolock to neutralize Chlorine from the Tap water and make it safe for my fish but I guess its very expensive, specially because I change about 50% Water every week in all my tanks. Just wanted to request you to kindly guide me if there's any cheaper alternative to this. I've heard people use Sodium Thiosulphate for this but I'm not sure if this works and if it does, then how much should be added to the tank etc

It will be a great help if you can kindly guide me here...
Thanks and Regards
Kush
 
A good water conditioner not only "removes" chlorine and chloramine, but also neutralizes heavy metals and transforms the ammonia into a non toxic to fish form. Speaking of ammonia, this is what the chlorine is turned to, it is not actually removed from the water but is transformed.

I would stick to a quality water conditioner, I as well as most here at AC prefer prime. It is not expensive and it takes very little, only 2 drops per gallon.
 
Hi Friends,

Thanks a lot for caring and for the kind replies. Prime is not available anywhere here in India - infact none of the Seachem Products are available here...

Even the API Amolock is imported and is sold for a very high price - really difficult to afford... Kindly help...
 
could you buy on online??????? shipping might be alot but if you get most of your supplies and only do it once per year it shouldnt be a problem.......or atleast i would think.
 
Just looked up the price from my online dealer a gl of conditioner is $30.most call for only drops to a gl of water. If I may ask how many gl of water do you treat each week
 
Some points of clarification:

Chlorine is not “turned” or “transformed” into ammonia. It can react with ammonia and form chloramines. In fact, that is exactly what many water treatment plants do here in the States to produce chloramines for water treatment. It is more stable than chlorine.

What purification do they use in your country? If it is pure chlorine (not chloramines), you can simply let the water sit for three days. Ideally if you could put a bubbler in there, that would help. If your water is treated with chloramines, you could let it sit for 100 years and the chloramines would still be there. They do not dissipate into the air like chlorine does.

Chloramines (and chlorine) are simply removed by either activated carbon filters or water conditions. Most (if not all conditions), that I know of are based on sodium thiosulfate (sodium thiosulfate pentahydrate).

Sodium Thiosulfate does react with chlorine and chloramines to produce, as one of its produces, salt (NaCl). Here’s a link that briefly discusses it use.

http://fins.actwin.com/killietalk/month.200107/msg00062.html

The one thing I do not know is the concentration needed to “neutralize” the chlorine compounds.

Best of luck
 
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