Re: Don't need dechlorinator?

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:11:47 +0000 (UTC), richard@xxxxxxxxxxxx
(Richard Sexton) wrote:

Plain CHLORINE kills them as dead as chloromines. I refilled what I thought
was an empty 150 gallon pool to find several dark brown dead young goldfish
a few hours later. You see, when I net out the fish I drain down these
pools so they're easier to catch. I never saw the dark colored ones against
the black background. When I refill them I don't use a dechlorinator unless
I'm going to put fish right back in them......

We don't have chloromines in our water.

Weird, that's not been my experience at all. I've had chlorine
in my tapwater forever and I never saw any discomfort let alone
deaths, I even got away with chloramine for a while until one
day I killed a rae fish very very quicly. I used AmQuell
religiously after that.

I have well water now and it is no longer an issue.

I found the Merdel chlorine/chloramine test strips to be
EXTREMLEY accurate and useful.

I thought there was some sort of law that made municipalities
use chloramine instead of chlorine universally? No?

Chlorine is deprecated becuse when combined with tannis from
leaves it forms lugnotannins which are carcinogenic (or something
like that) whereas chloramine doesn't do that.


I've killed Koi with chlorinated tap water. Put the hose in to fill
up the pond and forget it, or go to sleep. goldfish survive, they are
apparently less sensitive.
.

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