and chloramine takes days to dissapate in standing water. however the sun will dissapate it quickly.
How long should tap water sit before it can be used without dechlorinator chemicals?
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also water supplies that use chloramine use it year round, except possibly a 2 week to one month period when they turn the ammonia off to clean out their systems.
Not necessarily, around here I know one of the counties only uses it when there has been a lot of rain, so it is not their standard. Other counties use it all the time, others never use it.
Just use Prime.
Just use Prime.
Here in the UK all water compaines at some times of the year will use Chloramine,the one that supplies me uses it all year but having checked with them the amount in the tap water is below 0.8 ppm.
On there water report it is listed as residual disinfectant they do not specify between chlorine and chloramine,just use a HMA unit as that will remove both as long as the rate of flow is slow enough,have a look at a few of the auto water changers on here that people have put together as they have use a similar filter.
On there water report it is listed as residual disinfectant they do not specify between chlorine and chloramine,just use a HMA unit as that will remove both as long as the rate of flow is slow enough,have a look at a few of the auto water changers on here that people have put together as they have use a similar filter.
sorry, iv been out of the house most of the day. well, "what's wrong with prime?" i dont know. 
i dont remember every really looking at it. im sure iv heard people on here talk about it but im not sure i ever really knew what it was. iv always used a different conditioner. i went out to searchems website and looked at prime, it doesnt give me the a list of what's in it but it does sound like amazing stuff.
to answer the question of why im looking into getting away from chemical water conditioners... i have a funny feeling they aren't healthy for us humans to be around. i have sensitive skin and i know the stuff i use has irritated my hands in the past. i tend to use a net now instead of my hand to mix it in the bucket before pouring it in the aquarium. i just thought better safe than sorry. seems like i remember formaldehyde being an ingredient in water conditioners, but maybe iv got that mixed up with aquatic plant root tabs... which i know for a fact that i have found at least one of those that have formaldehyde in them. putting two and two together... (im explaining my logic perhaps) if one company (root tabs) is allowed to use a chemical that is known to be a carcinogen- and that stuff clearly would come into contact with us hobbyists' skin- then whose to say that any other company wouldn't be allowed to do the same? so basically, im trying to be healthy oh, and to give a little of the same experience that i have- information wise- to you guys so perhaps ya'll can understand where im coming from, go read the some of this thread:
http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumapc/fertilizing/74735-glutaraldehyde-slow-release-block.html
it also might clarify things if i explain what im imagining for a new water change system. im planning on putting a ten gallon in my stand that the twenty-nine gallon sits on. i want to put a heater, thermometer, and pump with tubing in it. i can fill it up by pulling a garden hose through my window (drinking water safe rated hose), the tank is right next to one of my windows so it's not like im dragging a garden hose through the house to the basement. and now i think ill just stick a HOB filter on the back with a bag of carbon and give it two days to heat up and filter out all the chemicals.
what do yall think?
thanks by the way for all the help, i really do appreciate it!! and like i said, sorry for not responding faster, iv been out of the house most of the day today and yesterday.
i dont remember every really looking at it. im sure iv heard people on here talk about it but im not sure i ever really knew what it was. iv always used a different conditioner. i went out to searchems website and looked at prime, it doesnt give me the a list of what's in it but it does sound like amazing stuff.to answer the question of why im looking into getting away from chemical water conditioners... i have a funny feeling they aren't healthy for us humans to be around. i have sensitive skin and i know the stuff i use has irritated my hands in the past. i tend to use a net now instead of my hand to mix it in the bucket before pouring it in the aquarium. i just thought better safe than sorry. seems like i remember formaldehyde being an ingredient in water conditioners, but maybe iv got that mixed up with aquatic plant root tabs... which i know for a fact that i have found at least one of those that have formaldehyde in them. putting two and two together... (im explaining my logic perhaps) if one company (root tabs) is allowed to use a chemical that is known to be a carcinogen- and that stuff clearly would come into contact with us hobbyists' skin- then whose to say that any other company wouldn't be allowed to do the same? so basically, im trying to be healthy
oh, and to give a little of the same experience that i have- information wise- to you guys so perhaps ya'll can understand where im coming from, go read the some of this thread:http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumapc/fertilizing/74735-glutaraldehyde-slow-release-block.html
it also might clarify things if i explain what im imagining for a new water change system. im planning on putting a ten gallon in my stand that the twenty-nine gallon sits on. i want to put a heater, thermometer, and pump with tubing in it. i can fill it up by pulling a garden hose through my window (drinking water safe rated hose), the tank is right next to one of my windows so it's not like im dragging a garden hose through the house to the basement. and now i think ill just stick a HOB filter on the back with a bag of carbon and give it two days to heat up and filter out all the chemicals.
what do yall think?
thanks by the way for all the help, i really do appreciate it!!
and like i said, sorry for not responding faster, iv been out of the house most of the day today and yesterday.