I WAS WONDERING IF WOULD BE OK TO USE MY AQUARIUM KILLER TO ON MY FBT WATER WITH OUT HERTING IT THANKS
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IS USEING AQUARIUM CHLORINE KILLER OK FOR MY FBT WATER
bblackmon19
Feb 21, 2004 08:49 AM
Replies (7)
LeopardGeckoMan
Feb 21, 2004 10:36 PM
ummmm what do you mean do you mean the thing where you put 2 drop into a 1 quart bottle? or are you talking about just putting the chlorine killer into the water while it is in the aquarium?
if you are asking about the 2 drops into a seperate bottle, yes it is ok but if i was you i would wait a day for it to be ok. But those it seems are just a waste of money if you let your water sit out for 1-2 days the clorine will be gone by then. ( this is without the droplets).
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NebraskaTurtles
Feb 22, 2004 03:09 PM
Its not the chlorine you have to worry about, its the ammonia, personally I would add them, the Nebraska water kills fish, and has killed amphibians, or so the newspaper said.
LeopardGeckoMan
Feb 23, 2004 08:49 PM
First off he probably doesnt live in Nebraska... and if im not mistaken he said it was well water and i dont think their is anything more than iron or some bacteria in it. their might be sulfur or something else but if their is his parents probably already have that covered...
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Colchicine
Feb 22, 2004 09:32 PM
Let us to clear up some misinformation.
Yes, you do need to dechlorinate you water if you are going to use it for fish or amphibians if you are using "city" water. Most municipal water supplies use chloramines to sanitizer water. This MUST be removed chemically, there is no other way. If your municipal water supplier is archaic, they might still be using chlorine which can let sit out overnight and it will degas into the atmosphere. This method will not work for chloramines. And yes chlorine can seriously affect amphibians. Lower concentrations can cause skin, gill, and eye irritations. Higher concentrations destroy red blood cells that ultimately disrupt oxygen transfer. In chloramines are more toxic and stable than chlorine, so you can imagine what that would do to an amphibians.
I personally think that many of the products sold for reptiles and amphibians are grossly overpriced. I highly recommend the dechlorinators made by Kordon, specifically Amquel and NovAqua, and I recommend using both of them for amphibians. They are used professionally, and I know that they work.
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LeopardGeckoMan
Feb 23, 2004 08:53 PM
No it is not mis information i dont use any type of chemicals for my water for my leopard gecko, firebellies, tree frogs, ect... and well they dont have an extra leg growing out of their ass and they are behaving perfectly fine. And tell me something why do you have to keep putting chlorine into pools? Oh thats right because it keeps going away! I hope that you dont have a pool, and if you do i pray that your parents take care of it and not you because if i was anyone that swam in it i woulndt want too...
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Colchicine
Feb 24, 2004 10:30 AM
If you go back to my post, you'll see I made me mention that chlorinated water will cause deformities. Chlorinated water WILL will cause irritations that will undoubtedly put unnecessary stress on a captive animal that can otherwise behave "perfectly fine". If you are indeed on city water, I strongly recommend that you dechlorinator the water before it is provided to the amphibians. The chlorinated water is almost inconsequential to most reptiles.
And if you notice in my original post, you'll see that chloramines cannot be removed by allowing it to degas like you can with chlorine. It absolutely, positively, 100 percent, must be removed chemically.
"i pray that your parents take care of it"
What? I hope you will soon realize that not everybody who post on these forums are teenagers.
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...the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it."
Aldo Leopold (1938)
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
Calvin and Hobbes (Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink', 1991)
meretseger
Feb 24, 2004 10:56 AM
If you had to live in a swimming pool you'd soon have a different opinion as to how much chlorine should be in it.
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