leaving water to stand to remove chlorine?

No stress coat...

Aloe vera is not found in any fishes natural environment. It helps us with our sun burns, but is really just another pollutant in the water. Imo, adding stuff like stress coat regularly to tank water is not beneficial to the fish. It may help out in times of disease or stress, but the best thing for fish is clean fresh water.

Cathy
 
thanks - found some stuff which does just ammonia, ammonium and heavy metals, and no Aloe Vera. Want to try and get it right for the fishies this time.
 
Astro said:
thanks - found some stuff which does just ammonia, ammonium and heavy metals, and no Aloe Vera. Want to try and get it right for the fishies this time.
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Did you mean chlorine and chloramine?
 
My mistake - yes that is what I mean Zoo. All these chemical names are spinning round my head now.
 
It seems your issue is handled quite well, for your reference Chlorine will in fact gas off, but some sort of agitation is usually needed to get it to go away in 24 hours. I use this method religiously and seldom if ever use dechlorinator. Chloramine will also eventually break down and the chlorine will gas off, this usually takes several days to a week with agitation/aireation.

I would not even consider aging water with chloramines and not using some sort of dechlorinator anyhow. Chloramines are stable enough to be worrisome to me even if they may eventually gas off. additionally if you are aging water, with chloramines, it's nice to have a bio-filter to eliminate the ammonia, and rtoutinely filling your aging barrell with chloriminated water would negate your bio-filter.
 
Just A Point on Chloramine

Chloramine does in fact off-gas with aeration, but it takes a week or more.

I've done this experiment just because I was curious. Obviously, using aeration to get rid of chloramine is a waste of time and electricity. But it does work because ammonia and chlorine are both gases even when combine to make chloramine.

"Just use a dechlorinator" is my advice.
 
Astro said:
thanks - found some stuff which does just ammonia, ammonium and heavy metals, and no Aloe Vera. Want to try and get it right for the fishies this time.
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As you stated, meant chlorine and chloramine. Which product? A lot will say they "treat" chloramine but that only means they break the chlorine/ammonia bond and then the ammonia is left. It must also specifcially state that it deals with the ammonia from that broken bond.
 
I am now using API 'Tap Water Conditioner'. I definately don't want any de-ammonia stuff at the moment, because I am still fishless cycling. Is it OK to continue to use this when there are fish in the tank? How much ammonia is there in dechloramined water? I guess I should test next time I do a water change.
 
I purchased a water purifier to remove Chlorine and Chloramine elements (along with just about any other hard element) when I first purchased my aquarium so that I wouldn't have to deal with any chems other than meds as/if ever needed.

This is what I bought - it was cheap and easy to install...

http://www.bidness.com/esd/us4_water_filter.htm


P.S. It was the US4-IL
 
Astro said:
I am now using API 'Tap Water Conditioner'. I definately don't want any de-ammonia stuff at the moment, because I am still fishless cycling. Is it OK to continue to use this when there are fish in the tank? How much ammonia is there in dechloramined water? I guess I should test next time I do a water change.
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If you have chlorine/ chloramines in your water, yes, use the conditioner whenever you put fresh water in.
 
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