-- Stephen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Deavours [deavours at ittc.ku.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 3:37 PM
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: [RML]
>
>
> I just had a very unpleasant experience. I just made a big move, and
> fortunately most of my fish survived. Everything's going
> reasonably well.
> Of course, the tanks need to cycle, and the amonia's starting
> to get up
> there pretty high, so I do a water change on one of the
> tanks. All the fish
> (M. Irianjaya that I wanted to breed right away) in the tank
> promptly died.
>
> I'm pretty sure it's a cholorine death, but I used my normal
> double of the
> dechlorinator (basic sodium thiosulphate).
>
> I called the water company to see what's up. They're putting
> in 3.5 PPM
> chlorine in the form of chloramine since they provide water
> up to 40 miles
> away.
>
> I don't know what's "normal," but 3.5 PPM seems kind of high.
> What kind of
> dosage do I need to be using? Also, if I'm using water with 3.5PPM
> chloramine and dechlorinate, do I get 3.5PPM amonia when I'm
> done? Yikes!
>
> I also learned that the pH is high, like around 8.5, maybe as
> high as 9,
> never below 8. They raise it primarily with lyme. I think
> I'm fated to
> never be able to grow plants. Apparently the reason the pH is high is
> because of lead and copper used in the water systems. That
> seems to be
> typical in the midwestern US, or at least that's what it's
> been like the
> last 3 places I've lived. Is there an easier way of
> de-lyming water, except
> something like RO?
>
> Dan Deavours
> ITTC - University of Kansas
> 2335 Irving Hill Road
> Lawrence, KS 66045-7612
> deavours at ittc.ku.edu
>