Post by ree123 on Jul 17, 2011 10:34:51 GMT -6
Greetings all.
Having experienced this I felt the need to share.
As the summer months heat up, as they are now, we have less rains from Mother Nature. Thus the water levels drop in our creeks, rivers, and streams. Our city water deptartments begin to have issues in that the water they are cleaning for our taps at home have more and more algae per unit of water in them.
Here in Franklin, we often can even smell the algae concentrations rise during the warmer months. [ Like now ]
Our water is still clear from the tap, and is still clean, and safe and usable for our consumption.
The concern becomes that many water companies will add additional chlorine to keep this algae in check for our consumption.
We must be aware of this possibility !!!
If you have a set schedule of how much de-clor to use for so many gallons of water change in any given tank, you might consider either calling your water company to ask about additional chlorine or just double your de-clor amts. to be on the safe side.
If the chlorine goes double and you do not go double on de-clor, it will be as if you made a water change without any use of de-clor. at all.
For me, when this happened a few years back, it meant death to several tanks of prized fish.
So, if you use city water, be aware during the hot summer months, or call your water dept. to ask questions. They seem to be very forthcoming on the info. you need.
Having experienced this I felt the need to share.
As the summer months heat up, as they are now, we have less rains from Mother Nature. Thus the water levels drop in our creeks, rivers, and streams. Our city water deptartments begin to have issues in that the water they are cleaning for our taps at home have more and more algae per unit of water in them.
Here in Franklin, we often can even smell the algae concentrations rise during the warmer months. [ Like now ]
Our water is still clear from the tap, and is still clean, and safe and usable for our consumption.
The concern becomes that many water companies will add additional chlorine to keep this algae in check for our consumption.
We must be aware of this possibility !!!
If you have a set schedule of how much de-clor to use for so many gallons of water change in any given tank, you might consider either calling your water company to ask about additional chlorine or just double your de-clor amts. to be on the safe side.
If the chlorine goes double and you do not go double on de-clor, it will be as if you made a water change without any use of de-clor. at all.
For me, when this happened a few years back, it meant death to several tanks of prized fish.
So, if you use city water, be aware during the hot summer months, or call your water dept. to ask questions. They seem to be very forthcoming on the info. you need.
