RE: [Killietalk] Cloromine

[Chris <cgraseck at optonline_net>]

Wright Wrote

"I avoid products that are advertised like "snake oil" and don't give 
their ingredients or how they work. IDK what is in Hagan's "Aqua Plus" 
but suspect it is an ultra-expensive version of plain old photographer's

hypo. That will not kill infusoria, AFAIK. It possibly will give your 
fish gill damage, if you have any chloramine."

That's, maybe, a little heavy handed Wright.  My bottle of Aqua plus
states that it removes chlorine and chloramine and that it neutralizes
heavy metals.  I have used this product for years and frequently do 100%
water changes on quarantined fish.  I can't remember the last time I
lost a quarantined fish so this product can't be that bad.

 I do not use it in my Daphnia cultures as they seem to come on line
more quickly with plain old tap water.  On the other hand, I have a
beautiful Reef Tank that evaporates about a half gallon of water a day.
All of the makeup water that goes into that tank is treated with Aqua
plus.  I have many thriving corals in this tank as well a bustling *pod
community.

*Pod = Reef talk for Isopod, Amphipod, Copepods, Decapods.....

Cheers,
Chris in Rye NY



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