Re: [APD] APD] Potassium chlorate - KClO3 advice

["Robert T. Ricketts" <rtricketts at verizon_net>]

Stuart Halliday wrote, in part:
<I bought, more out of curiously than anything else, some 'Supa Oxygenating
<Tablets'. Which claims to be 98% Potassium Chlorate.

...snip...

<OK, the Potassium the fish won't mind. But Chlorine is not good surely?

Don't confuse chloride (Cl-, the ion) with chlorine (Cl2, the dissolved
gas).  As is the case with ammonia (NH3, the dissolved gas) ad ammonium
(NH4+, the ion), the ion is harmless at low concentrations and a normal part
of water and invertebrate and vertebrate metabolism.  The dissolved gases
are quite toxic.

RTR

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