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RE: Water treatments

jsmith11618 — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:05:46 GMT

dar (8/23/2008)

Where in the worldis Chilliwack? SOunds like a wonderful system.

British Columbia, about 100km east of Vancouver off Hwy # 1.

The city is proud of the water, and in summer they place water restrictions on us as the Aquifer can only provide so much water in a day, our average day uses 26 million liters and in summer 48 million liters and when the Aquifer can't provide anymore they will have to import water from other sources and then have to treat it and the city is trying to avoid this anyway they can.

RE: Water treatments

dar — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:40:24 GMT

Where in the world is Chilliwack? SOunds like a wonderful system.

RE: Water treatments

dar — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:38:00 GMT

Gee, seems like there is a lot of things I maybe should have considered before getting my tank a year ago. So far I've lost 1 beta, 6 White Clouds, 3 neons, and took 5 fish back to pet shop last week because they were snippy and aggressive. Even after reading several sites sometimes I get conflicting info.

RE: Water treatments

dar — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:32:35 GMT

Ok, Math, I enjoy your posts, thanks... After finding this site I now think I really need to buy some kinda water test kit for my Bio Cube. My question is what kind do I buy? I have well water (no chemicals) but am sure it's a little on the hard side. We live in N.C. mountains where the soil is acidic. The water has no taste and doesn't leave stains in sink/toilets so I'm guessing it's not harsh hard. What do you think?

RE: Water treatments

math-only aquarium — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:03:24 GMT

Hello,

Another concern is heavey metals. Just because your town runs off of an aquifer doesn't eradicate heavy metals. Also, the piping in your own home can result in metal contamination. As such, keeping a bottle of metal neutralizer/dechlorinator around is still a good idea (as princess mentioned).

RE: Water treatments

David Lass — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:03:30 GMT

Does sound like you are one of the lucky few who don't have to worry about chlorine and chloramines in your tap water. Princess' idea of asking them if they ever do add anything is a good one. I know that I am on the list for the little town I live in where if they are doing anything to the water that is at all different, they will let me know in advance. There is one other guy here who has a lot of fish, and a couple of folks on dialysis -- and the water dept lets us know if there are goping to be any changes.

RE: Water treatments

princessotfu — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:34:32 GMT

The full time use of chlorine in the drinking...

Sounds like you really don't need the conditioner. I would still see if you can check on whether they ever use it as emergency measure, based on the wording above, and maybe just keep a bottle around in case you notice anything wrong with your fish. Just as a precaution. Other than that, I'd say sounds good.

RE: Water treatments

jsmith11618 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:20:38 GMT

I emailed the city and this was their response.

The City of Chilliwack
currently adds no chemicals
to the drinking
water supply. The full time
use of chlorine in the drinking
water system ceased in 1998
when the City closed down its
surface water intakes and
transferred 100% of its
drinking water production
efforts to the Sardis-Vedder
Aquifer. The water produced
by the wells is of extremely
high quality and the City’s
drinking water quality
assurance program helps maintain the high quality of the water
from the wells all the way to the consumer’s tap without the use of
chemicals.

I didn't use a conditioner when I did my water change Friday morning and the fish are as happy as always.

RE: Water treatments

David Lass — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:52:02 GMT

You really should go and check for sure that they do not add anything to the water supply. Every public water supply that I know of treats their water with something.

RE: Water treatments

princessotfu — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:51:15 GMT

You live in a city that does not add chlorine/chloramine to its tap water? If that's really the case, then no, you wouldn't water conditioners. Maybe I need to move there.;)

Water treatments

jsmith11618 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:52:00 GMT

Is it necessary to add water conditioner to a tank when the local tap water contains no chemicals?

The city I live in now adds no chemicals to its water supply, and I am 100% sure of this as the city is quite proud of this fact and they make it well known when summer comes and they place water restrictions on us.

Just curious is there is a need for the water conditioner when the local water contains none of the chemicals the conditioner removes.