Stress Coat Dechlorinator

[big a little a]

Ok, so, for anyone that remembers the process of me cycling my tank....the day of reckoning is now upon me - picking up my first axie on Monday....very excited, but a bit scared too!

The tank is completely cycled and ready for him, I have axie food, water test kits and lots of dechlorinated water at standby. I also have some stress coat stuff that removes chlorine from water and it is herein that my question lies - I have just been leaving water to stand for 48 hours to dechlorinate it, however, thought, in case of emergency, would be good to have some dechlorinator stuff on standby. Now, I know how much of it to add per litre, but, for example, do I just fill a bottle with water from the tap, add the dechlorinator and then, hey presto, it's immediately dechlorinated. Or do you have to leave it to stand for 10,20,30 minutes?

Any info would be gratefully received!

Thanks

Zoe x

 

[Bellabelloo]

I tend to fill my watering can with water and add the dechlorinator...It then sits for maybe 10 minutes while a syphon off some water . Then I pour the water in. My bottle does not actually say how long it should be left, I may well look on their web site and see.

 

[big a little a]

Thanks for your response Julia - it's the same with my bottle, it doesn't mention anywhere how long it takes, just how much to use...weird hey, how they would neglect to put on timing info, when that seems very important to me!!

Picking up the little monster TOMORROW, so excited, will post pics soon - I've had a bit of a revamp of my tank too.

Also, note to any moderators - please can someone adjust my spelling of "gratefully" on the above post, as I don't know how and it is really bugging me!!!

X

 

[Darkmaverick]

Hi Zoe,

From my understanding the chemical reactions from dechlorinators act almost immediately. However to be safe, i think leaving for 5-10 min before adding to tank is a good idea.

I am not sure about others but i have always suspected the dechlorinators to be involved in some exothermic (heat producing) process. When i use dechlorinators, i tend to feel that the water is getting warmer... (or maybe its just my imaginitis).

When i have some spare time i will look up the chemical reactions involved which can provide some more concrete answers.

Cheers.