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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V3 #778
> Yes-thats right-#778-I'm cleaning out my mailbox (what a procrastinator).
> I have a question though-isn't chloramine added to purify water? Wouldn't
> tap water with chloramine hitting a biological filter kill it, rather than
> the biological filter breaking it down?
Chloramine breaks itself down. Again, at concentrations that it is in your
tap water, you can do a 20% change, and it will not hurt the fish (or the
filter bacteria). It will breakdown and dissipate before 24 hours has gone.
Ask someone who owns a swimming pool how much chlorine he/she goes through,
just because it dissipates out.
Bob Dixon