[APD] Re: De-chloramination

[Rhonda Wilson <rhonda at naturalaquariums_com>]

I noticed the comments on water changes and temperature. Here in AZ in 
the summer the water that comes out of the tap at it's coldest is warm 
enough to pretty comfortably shower, or bathe in. So in the interest of 
science, haha I checked the temps this morning. At 9am, after running 
the water enough to get the colder water that had been sitting in the 
house pipes out of the pipes, my cold tap water was at 88. I checked one 
of my tanks with the same thermometer and it's reading about 76. This is 
just an old aquarium thermometer so could be off but it should be 
moderately close. I sometimes do 75% changes and my fish don't seem to 
be ill affected. Though I usually do 30 to 50% changes. I couldn't do 
water changes in the summer if they couldn't take the temp changes. With 
80 tanks I can't leave that many buckets around to get cool in the house 
and my back would never forgive me for lifting them all. :)  I just use 
a python and put the dechlor directly in the tanks.

I do have to be real careful. I attach my python to the outside hose. I 
usually just drain the tanks separately because it's easier to get muck 
out without stopping up the hose, and I don't want to waste the extra 
water, and it's just as easy to get the drain working without running 
water through it. I just run it out the back door and into my fruit 
trees. Anyway I was doing this the other day and had run the garden hose 
to get the hot water out, done one tank, drained a few more and then 
re-hooked up the hose to start filling again. I started on a small 
(about 4 gallon) tank that had one female guppy in it and she started 
jumping out of the water.  I stuck my hand in there and the water 
sitting in the hose had gotten so hot in the time that I had drained the 
other tank that it was very uncomfortable. Luckily I was able to grab 
the guppy with my hands and dropped her into an adjacent tank and she 
survived ok. But the water that was coming out of the hose was hotter 
than we have our hot water heater set at, that's for sure, definitely 
hot enough that I couldn't have left my hand in it.

Rhonda
http://naturalaquariums.com/



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