I have an air stone in 10 litres of tap water. Realistically how long will it take for the chlorine to dissipate before I can safely use the water on my girls? I know the guideline is 24 hours, but with an airstone i assume I can step that up to 12 hours or less. Any input? I have a busy schedule and have a tendency to do leave my res refills to the last minute, thus the question.
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Chlorine dissipation from tap water
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Big Brotha P
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24 hrs for Chlorine
Never for Chloramine. Might want to check to see which one you have in your water.
From what I gathered the air stone does not speed up the chlorine evaporation just keeps the water aerated and fresh.
Never for Chloramine. Might want to check to see which one you have in your water.
From what I gathered the air stone does not speed up the chlorine evaporation just keeps the water aerated and fresh.
SomeOldGuy
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...yeah man, chlorinated tap water isn't unsafe for your plants it's unsafe for the micro-herd that lives in the soil.
...which means if you don't growing organically you don't need to de-chlorinate your water, ...there are many who grow in hydro who ascribe to growing in 'dead' reservoirs to keep microscopic pests at bay and chlorine works well to kill all microscopic life, ...but your plants won't care either way (assuming of course there are no pests, lol).
peace, SOG
btw, Big Brotha P is right, chlorine will evaporate in about 24 hours and chloramine will not, ...all you need to do is contact your local water supply to find out if they use chlorine or chloramine, plus, you should recieve an annual water quality report from your municipal water supply in the mail every year.
chlorine dissipates ,chloromine need to be neutralized. i think folks were using vitamin c/ascorbic acid and organic matter
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SeaMaiden
As I used to advise my customers when I worked the aquarium shops, so I will advise you. Use your nose if you don't want to use a dechlorinator, which I still advise. A lot of folks' dander gets up whenever I mention sodium thiosulfate (I believe citric acid is an organic solution, but don't hold me to it because it's something I've never used).
Go to The Chemistry Store (dot com), look up sodium thiosulfate, dry crystals. A 2lb tub costs $5. You take a little bit of that ST and dilute it into a distilled water solution of either 1% or 3%, then use *that* at a rate of around 1T to 1tsp/gal to dechlorinate OR dechloraminate.
Or, like I said, assuming you can actually smell the chlorine, use your nose. If the smell is gone it's likely the chlorine is gone. Cannot ever say the same for NH4Cl.
Hey! It always worked for fish!
