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It is a commmon practice to condition tap water before using it in your tanks. By using water ager chlorine and most of the time chloramine are neutralised. But you can get away with using water ager if u let the tap water to sit for 48 hrs and all the chlorine should be evporated already. But how about chloramine? Will it be removed by just letting the tap water to sit for 2 days before use?

Chloramine will kill fish and beneficial bacteria as the same way as chlorine?

And are there test kids to test for chloramine? (I personally never seen one, only for chlorine)

Any answers or comments will be great.

Cloramine won't evaporate. You have to use a water conditioner designed for cloramine. Don't know about test kits I just always condition the water.

Mike

same here. I use a conditioner - it's pretty cheap and it covers most of the bad stuff in tap water.

I find it easier to treat the water than to have buckets of water sitting around the house so that they can age...especially since I tend to do all my water changes at the same time...a 55 gallon and 29 gallon take quite a bit to replenish, and heck I love my python!!!

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

Chloramine is the combination of ammonia and chlorine...

Chlorine will pass out of water as a gas within eight hours but ammonia will linger for many more hours before evaporating.

Some believe that activated carbon will remove ammonia from the water but the fact is the result is very poor.

Water treatment plants will add ammonia during summer months if, after testing, the water does not meet safe drinking standards.

--garyroland.

Last edited by garyroland at 21-Dec-2004 21:08

Wait - Water treatment plants ADD ammonia? So i'm drinking water I wouldn't give my fish?! Hrmmm

so it means that to be 100% save, always use water ager to neutralise chlorine and chloramine

I knew someone would ask me about drinking ammonia...

The amount of ammonia added at the plant is rather small and before it ever reaches the tap it has done its intended purpose, to aid in killing bacteria in peak summer months along with chlorine, and has dissipated.

Some plants do not add ammonia unless their water tests show higher than normal bacterial activity.

--garyroland.