Re: [Killietalk] Cloromine (sic)

[Wright Huntley <whuntley at verizon_net>]

LeeH920226 at aol_com wrote:

> In a message dated 2/2/04 4:51:22 PM, whuntley at verizon_net writes:
>
> << 
> When you lose a few favorite fish, and are quite sure it was because the 
> hypo acting on chloramine killed them, you can be made a believer very 
> quickly. >>
>
> Well, sometimes it is because you did not add enough hypo. 

Never hoppen, Lee. :-)

a) I tend to overdose in emergencies.

b) I know how to use a test kit (did, even back then). ;-) That's how I 
knew "chlorine" was present, anyway.

As I recall, survival was better in the tanks I did *not* treat with the 
hypo, so that's not a very likely cause, anyway.


> I switched from 
> commercial expensive hypo solutions that were "supposed" to eliminate chlorine 
> at one drop per gallon to my own solution or crystals at much higher 
> concentrations after I killed some fish being so careful adding exactly what the 
> manufacturer recommended. Later, I found that I needed about 5 times that amount to 
> eliminate detectable chlorine. That was long before chloramine was an issue.

This kind of issue tends to make topics like this a bit "iffy" at times. 
I hope it encourages folks to get out the kit and test when in doubt. We 
learn more, that way.

Wright

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