RE: [Killietalk] Water

["Al Anderson" <killiman at iquest_net>]

Where and how much does your carbon cost?


killiman at iquest_net
Al Anderson
6246 N Rural
Indianapolis IN 46220
317 253 2170

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Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 12:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Water


In a message dated 12/4/04 11:45:11 AM, dwake at iopener_net writes:

<<  I must be missing something somewhere. What is the good word on this?
>>

I have probably killed more fish in 60 years of keeping tropical and cool
freshwater fish by not completely dechlorinating the water than by all other
methods combined. Therefore I recommend both dechlorinating and testing. I
now use
carbon filters for much of my water but for the very large tanks that I
refill partially from the tap, I use sodium thiosulfate. I highly recommend
the
chlorine test kit that Charles Harrison offers. Yesterday, I tested my
carbon
filtered water and detected chlorine, so I am now changing the carbon, after
about 4 months. I use Norit PK, which is the basic carbon used in Black
Diamond or
Black Magic activated carbon. BY testing I estimate that my tap water has
2-3
parts per million of chloramine. It used to have 5 ppm of chlorine. The only
concern I have with using sodium thiosulfate for dechlorinating is that it
does liberate ammonia from the chloramine. Therefore for my alkaline tanks
for
Tanganyikan fish, I don't change more than 10% at a time or I also add
Amquel or
Ammolock after the sodium thiosulfate. I have not tried other commercial
chloramine removers.

Lee Harper
Media, PA USA

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