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Hi everyone! Its been at least 2 years since I have posted here, had to sign up again for some reason.

Anyway I'm living in Templestowe, one of the eastern suburbs of Melbourne (in Australia) and I wanted to know if there were any chloromines in the water.

I've already had a look at Yarra Water's website and am not sure if the water is treated with normal chlorine or chloromines.

Hope these links work....

http://www.melbournewater.com.au/system/mainframeset.asp?path=/water_cycle/water/water_quality_and_treatment/water_quality_and_treatment.asp
http://www.propertyflow.yvw.com.au/waterquality/ZoneDetail.asp?Zone=49&CAT=General&Param=Overview
http://www.yvw.com.au/for-business/water-supply/chlorination.html
http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=sp072cd100&sp-p=any&sp-f=iso-8859-1&sp-q=chloromine

If there isn't any chloromine, can you extract the chlorine by leaving the water out for 48? hours or aerating (sp?) it with a showerhead or something?

It would be a lot more easier to hook up a hose with a showerhead to refill the tank rather then lugging 20l buckets of declorinated water.

I have had a discussion with Yarra Valley Water about this before. They do treat the water with chloramine occasionaly, usually in the warmer months as a precaution to unwanted things in our water.

It is safe to aerate your water for 24-48 hours before doing a water change to rid the water of chlorine. As far as I know chloramine will not evaporate out.

Lately the water has been smelling very strongly of chlorine here (in Mooroolbark) so I have been adding extra dechlorinator to my water before changes. I am lead to believe that when there is a strong chlorine smell coming out of the tap that it is chloramine. (Smell being strong enough to make you go "pwoh!" Most bottles of dechlorinator will give you two sets of doses, one for chlorine and one for chloramine. The dose generally is double but check before you add.

HTH

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If you condition your water with a product that neutralizes both chlorine and chloramines, you can do water changes with tap water. Be sure to remper your water to approximate your aquarium temperature and then begin to fill, after you begin filling add your water conditioner.

I have discus and do daily 30/40% water chnages from the tap in my 125G. A python that connects to the faucet is used to siphon, vacuum and refill the tank. See this link:

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=3910&Ntt=python&Ntk=All&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Np=1&N=2004&Nty=1

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Hi Devilfish, Lindy and Bob
In Australia, and almost everywhere else that has reticulated water, the local water authority adds all sorts of things to the municipal water supply. We had a large fish kill recently, lost $5000 worth of fish in one sysytem which was topped up with local water, yes it was declorinated at the usual rate but still the fish died in 5 mins flat. They came and tested the water, no nothing wrong with our water, our water is for dinnking and bathing and washing etc, " Municipal water is not for fishkeeping, if you use our water to put YOUR fish into it, it is YOUR responsability to have water that is suitable for YOUR fish, sorry we will not even look at your claim. The result of this fish kill was that any tap water used in our area, we add double the recomened rate of good quality declorinator, to stop any futher fishkills, none as yet. The addded cost of double dosing the water is far outweighed by a fishkill of $5000 plus.All our friends have been advised to double dose and have not lost anyfish either, as yet. So if you use your hose tap to refill a tank, just double dose the tank and top it up.
" An Ounce of prevention is better than a pound of Cure."
If you sit down and worry about what the local council water is like, your fish water in your filtered tank is probably better than most tap water. Good luck. Muss.