PLEASE READ: What is wrong with Houston water?

[ptran]

Just saw a post on cyphos.com that somebody lost their whole colony of WC Mikula frontosa after a water change TODAY. My guess is he did the wc in the morning when the city add heavy dose of Chlorine and chemicals and who know what. Did anybody do their wc today? Any issue? Thanks.

[SunnyHouTX]

:facepalm:

This happens way too often here in Houston, why don't people spend the $300 and get a carbon bottle before buying expensive fish? I just don't see it

[cu0ngsayz]

:facepalm:

This happens way too often here in Houston, why don't people spend the $300 and get a carbon bottle before buying expensive fish? I just don't see it

Not everyone thinks about buying a carbon bottle because of "dechlorinate" is my guess.

[SunnyHouTX]

Maybe

[LordBarron7692]

Don't know but did a 60% water change yesterday and have no issues

[crazy42bmx]

Epic FAIL.

Simple fix to a not so hard problem. Either get a carbon bottle like sunny said or dose ur tank properly with quality water conditioners. Water changes arent complicated or challenging !!

[moganman]

Epic FAIL.

Simple fix to a not so hard problem. Either get a carbon bottle like sunny said or dose ur tank properly with quality water conditioners. Water changes arent complicated or challenging !!

They can be if the chloramines are 5x the normal amount. Even if you have proper water conditioners, they are only designed to remove the normal amounts. If a person is oblivious to the fact that the levels are higher than normal, then only a carbon bottle will solve this issue. That or test strips.

[johnnymisty]

:facepalm:

This happens way too often here in Houston, why don't people spend the $300 and get a carbon bottle before buying expensive fish? I just don't see it

+1 ive heard the horror stories of this myself and a carbon bottle is on my list of gotta buys this asap...... Especially now im in a mud district and not on a well system before on a well i could smell chlorine now no chlorine smell but a weird almost antiseptic smell to the water havent placed it yet but deffinitly not what im used to

[Ballinxalex]

Where do u guys get these carbon bottles ?

[ptran]

If I have 2 bags of activated carbon in the canister, does it help? Does the carbon bottle remove all including chloramine?

[BeefyG]

If I have 2 bags of activated carbon in the canister, does it help? Does the carbon bottle remove all including chloramine?

Depends on which carbon is in it. Activated carbon only does Chlorine. Catalytic carbon does both but its much more expensive.

[LordBarron7692]

Where do u guys get these carbon bottles ?

+1 where do you get one?

[moganman]

The big bottles that last 6-8 years are ordered from guys on here from time to time. Chrishem was selling some last year but I'm sure he's out. On a smaller scale, you can buy the RV filters from Walmart but they would only last a couple months with big water changes. Sure there's guys on here who can order some. The big ones will run about $325-350

[ptran]

Sunny would know since he recommend it?

[Ballinxalex]

The big bottles that last 6-8 years are ordered from guys on here from time to time. Chrishem was selling some last year but I'm sure he's out. On a smaller scale, you can buy the RV filters from Walmart but they would only last a couple months with big water changes. Sure there's guys on here who can order some. The big ones will run about $325-350

I have the Walmart rv one so how do u know when to replace the carbon filter ?