Re: [Killietalk] Killietalk Digest, Vol 55, Water conditioners

["apistomaster at excite_com" <apistomaster at excite_com>]

In the official water supply analysis required by the EPA, my water is free of industrial solvents, herbicides, insecticides and fertilizers.

The City draws from deep wells and the water is quite possibly nearly 1 million years old.

It is not my intention to promote any given brand of water conditioner but as primarily a breeder of wild and domestic Discus, I have found Prime to work the best for me. I use about 25% higher dose than recommended 1ml/gal per manufacturer. I find Prime to be the preferred water treatment among many fellow discus breeders.

I also like to raise red cherry shrimp, Ghost Glass shrimp and dwarf Crayfish and they have all had no negative effects from my use of Prime in their water.

I also breed L134 leopard frog Peckoltia Plecos and Sturisoma aureum.





(  3. having to do with de-chlorinators (Sue & Charles Harrison)----------------------------------------------------------------------Message: 1Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:48:02 -0500From: "Ken" <ken_combs at sbcglobal.net>Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Killietalk Digest, Vol 55, Black wormsTo: <apistomaster at excite_com>,	"'killifish discussion list'"	<killietalk at aka_org>Larry offers "My water supply seems to vary the dose of chlorine compoundsconsiderably"Is it the chlorine? After loosing our third set of breeder angels plusuntold (and almost irreplaceable) killifish this past week; I called thecity water supply and a "dr" actually came out and tested it...The line I got was the water chemistry is very different in the winter, espwith reaction to Thio-dechlors (the city claims to know of de-chlors andfish, et well)Moreover, this guy suspected the precipitate in my tanks was caused by somereaction with "ortho-phosphate", erh whatever that is (sounds like either afertilizer or bug killer
  
or both), they say it is added at 1ppm forcorrosion proofingIn any event, he speculates the fish die off was "bacterial" and related tothem feeding on this ortho stuff... :Yeah right: it kills fish/melts plants& bacterial love it...and I'm not buying it, but then again you can sell mychemically ignorant arse anything, wadda I know?...bout the only thing he recommended was to not use formaldehyde basedde-chlors...too many unexpected chemical reactions I guess?KC-----Original Message-----From: killietalk-bounces at aka_org [mailto:killietalk-bounces at aka_org] OnBehalf Of apistomaster at excite_comSent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:10 AMTo: killietalk at aka_orgSubject: Re: [Killietalk] Killietalk Digest, Vol 55, Black wormsI mentioned using dechlorinated water with my black worms eliminatedunexpected losses for those who may have had similar problems.My water supply seems to vary the dose of chlorine compounds considerably.It has cost me many fish. I had become used to not using a 
dechlorinecompound remover when I lived in Seattle for routine 50% water changes butnow I live in a small city in E. Washington State and they don't seem todose as carefully._______________________________________________Join Excite! 

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