Hi! Thanks for being an inspiration to start this hobby. I've always liked your videos but I have a very technical question in regarding this video. Won't adding tap water (with a little bit of chlorine) also kill your beneficial bacteria? If so, then how is it safe to add the tap water directly to your tank? Even if you've already added the water conditioner, I don't think it can spread fast enough to your newly added tap water before it reaches and kills the tank's beneficial bacteria. I hope I'm making some sense. As always, thanks for your advice.
I'm a college student and I took a class called Aquatic Animal Science. We had our own lab with tanks of fish and instead of using water conditioner, we had 30 gallon buckets of tap water, an airstone, and correctly dosed aquarium salt. After 72 hours of aeration (no lid) the water was safe to use. Luckily I don't necessarily have to do this at home since I have RO water.
@@tyleroptional2639 The coincidence of you saying that is that my professor is a bit horrific and out-dated with her info. I think we only used the aquarium salt to get the chlorine out of the water. Regardless, that class was a shit show I must say but I got an A in it.
@@sheepish2159 I've never heard of this "method" until I took the class and will probably never do it just because I've never stumbled upon this info while I did my own research. There were some things that I would consider that were relatively weird or curious as to why we didn't do them during lab stuff.
I thought many people still use stilled water to do water changes.(or at least from where I came from it's still widespread) But I prefer using water conditoners due to their safety,because it sure gets rid of heavy metals and chlorineamins. Also most people don't have enough place at home to store mutiple liters of water for days.
Lol my stressful self didn’t think this was okay , I normally mix up a 5 gal bucket and just mix it up really well with the conditioner and then add that to the tank
Great to know, thanks! I’m adding my first round of water to my new and first planted aquarium tomorrow, and have always wondered this question! I’m probably going to start off with adding it to 5 gallon buckets full of water prior to me adding it into my tank, due to my substrate having beneficial bacteria in it already
I add it to my bucket in the appropriate increments before checking the water temp and filling my bucket, but it’s good to know that it’s hard to overdose it, makes me feel a lot safer
This is totally fine, just one thing - pour the conditioner a little away from the fish. If they accidentally breathe in a concentrated amount, they can get sick.
I do my wc's with a tuppaware container and a pond pump connected with a hose. I first drain the tank about 40-50% every week. then i fill the container up with tap water and add prime. Then i pump it to the tank. But now i will add the dechlorinator to the tank and then the tapwater to the tank directly.
LUKE! Get fritz complete, 1 pump per 10 gallons, super easy to dose on big tanks, and it detoxifys ammonia nitrite and nitrates temporarily, and dechlorniates your water obv
When I had aquariums, I filled a jug or stock pot with water and added the conditioner then let it sit. Siphoned dirty water into a bucket and then poured in the clean water. Couple extra steps, lol.
Hi Luke! Thanks for being an inspiration to start this hobby. I've always liked your videos but I have a very technical question in regarding this video. Won't adding tap water (with a little bit of chlorine) also kill your beneficial bacteria? If so, then how is it safe to add the tap water directly to your tank? Even if you've already added the water conditioner, I don't think it can spread fast enough to your newly added tap water before it reaches and kills the tank's beneficial bacteria. I hope I'm making some sense. As always, thanks for your advice.
Thank you for this, more people need to see it because every time I see a creator fill their tank then wait to add dechlorinator after the fact a little piece of me dies on the inside, and I'm sure it does worse to their fish. Yeah sure they are only in chlorinated water for a few minutes but the chlorine burns their gills and other sensitive areas, and can cause the fish a lot of undue stress. I want to tell those people to hold their breath the whole time they change water to see how much their lungs burn, then amplify it because there is no escape for the fish, whereas the person could just breathe in. Sorry for the tirade but I have been reading a bunch of articles that are saying chlorine and chloramine kill more fish in the hobby than we originally thought and a lot of times it gets wrongly attributed to something else like ammonia toxicity.
Dude, you've been helping me so much. I've been having issues cycling my tank because it's my first time, other than being a child and keeping fishes in bowls, keeping a proper tank. This info isn't always easy to sift through because so many people have different experiences and opinions but I trust your judgment 100% :) This is definitely going to be used knowledge in the future and it'll help prevent going back and forth when I do my water changes
This is good information to know as trying to measure out the miniscule amount of Prime during water changes with only 10litre buckets is a bit of a nightmare.
Every tank ive ever had i literally put my fish in right after i fill it up and put the water conditioner in now i have spong filters and i just squeeze them in new tanks too and so far its been just fine lmao
I do it differently.. i get like a clean new tote or trash can of the gallon size that i use and add the water and conditioner in and wait for a while and pour it in the tank
I was cleaning my fish tank and realized that one of my blowfish tetras was missing an eye!! please help idk what to do or why this happened. he has 2 other glowfish tetras in the tank. him and one other were the originals and we got a new one recently that hurt the other fish but i thought it was resolved. could he have targeted the eye?!
@@klownvandamn7946 he is doing ok he's swimming perfectly fine, and doesn't appear to be too injured, i've heard that sometimes they are not that serious. thanks tho!
Did he end up making it? If you notice your fishes are hurt from attacking each other you may want to separate them or add more decorations in your tank so they see each other less. Also, get yourself some aquarium salt and seachem stress guard to help them recover
I started using RO water and it is the best... It is more work... But takes away the need for water conditioner and adds the need to re add minerals, adjusting Ph, kh/gh, lol...
I put 3 inch of water in a 5 gal add my 2.5ml of aqua clear then fill it the rest the way then I scoop half of that with Tupperware into the tank then dump the other half
You can also use carbon block filter (with filter housing) as a water pre filter, to reduce/eliminate chlorine and/or chlorine. But, both carbon block filter and water conditioner produce ammonia from chloramine as by product.
Hello Wilson....conditioner removes both chlorine chloramine........and u said it ammonia. logic is if it removes chloramine then no amount of ammonia will be produced from it, only waste food poo will produce ammonia later on
I’m pretty sure most conditioners have ammonia removal chemicals in them too, so any trace elements of Ammonia left over after Chlorine has been neutralised will also be dealt with.
Hello so I have an important question Can I use betta water conditioner for all freshwater fish??? I’m all out and Amazon can’t deliver for a while but I do have betta conditioner So can I use it Tysm!!!!!!
does it make a difference if i put my water conditioner in the tap water prior to putting it in the tank? im unsure if i should change my current method, thanks!
Ok my tank is green! I do water changes every week. I clean it like crazy. I was told to do a black out because it's super green even after a water change. I've ordered Purigen and a algae remover. Please tell me not to give up? I once have two small tanks with just snails and it did great? Ever sense I got my big tank it's been green. I will try all this stuff and pray it doesn't kill my snails and fish and shrimps .
not these days. chloramine is added to water now and is way more stable, stays in the water. will need conditioner that also removes chloramines like seachem prime, which also neutralizes any harmful heavy metals too.
When I do my water changes, I put the water conditioner in my bucket filled with water and swish it around a bit before I put it in my tank, is this an acceptable way to do it?
Hi bro , could you please tell me for how long water conditioner works to detoxify chlorine ? Becouse my tank need around 25 - 30 minutes to be full so is one dose enough in the beginning of water change? P s I use seachem safe. Thank you for advice.
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that's a smart way Of doing it.
My pink fighting fish still alive
But I don't have medicine for my fighting fish
Hi! Thanks for being an inspiration to start this hobby. I've always liked your videos but I have a very technical question in regarding this video.
Won't adding tap water (with a little bit of chlorine) also kill your beneficial bacteria? If so, then how is it safe to add the tap water directly to your tank? Even if you've already added the water conditioner, I don't think it can spread fast enough to your newly added tap water before it reaches and kills the tank's beneficial bacteria. I hope I'm making some sense.
As always, thanks for your advice.
You reay need to stop posting videos. Your tank socks and your fish are fucking ugly
I'm a college student and I took a class called Aquatic Animal Science. We had our own lab with tanks of fish and instead of using water conditioner, we had 30 gallon buckets of tap water, an airstone, and correctly dosed aquarium salt. After 72 hours of aeration (no lid) the water was safe to use. Luckily I don't necessarily have to do this at home since I have RO water.
Aquarium salt? My guy has horrific teachers n lessons
It's not safe to use this method unless you're using well water. Chloramine doesn't dissipate like chlorine does.
@@tyleroptional2639 The coincidence of you saying that is that my professor is a bit horrific and out-dated with her info. I think we only used the aquarium salt to get the chlorine out of the water. Regardless, that class was a shit show I must say but I got an A in it.
@@sheepish2159 I've never heard of this "method" until I took the class and will probably never do it just because I've never stumbled upon this info while I did my own research. There were some things that I would consider that were relatively weird or curious as to why we didn't do them during lab stuff.
I thought many people still use stilled water to do water changes.(or at least from where I came from it's still widespread) But I prefer using water conditoners due to their safety,because it sure gets rid of heavy metals and chlorineamins. Also most people don't have enough place at home to store mutiple liters of water for days.
I wanted this answer for years, first time I saw anyone mentioned it. thanks much
Lol my stressful self didn’t think this was okay , I normally mix up a 5 gal bucket and just mix it up really well with the conditioner and then add that to the tank
Me too!!
How bro carrying the 5 gallon bucket is so heavy for me
@@waniadanish7099 you can use a scoop or tube to siphon the water , it definitely can be heavy!
I still don't believe this is safe to do
@@waniadanish7099do it more and you will get stronger
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You have no idea how many creators I’ve asked this question and you’re the first one who has actually said anything
I mean why wouldn’t you add the water conditioner before adding the new tap water? Is that not common sense?! 😂
@@user-hk7hz9cn7v This isn't the best way to do it. Who said tap safe works instantly
The fish when you empty it “ is it just me or is the roof falling on us”
Great to know, thanks! I’m adding my first round of water to my new and first planted aquarium tomorrow, and have always wondered this question! I’m probably going to start off with adding it to 5 gallon buckets full of water prior to me adding it into my tank, due to my substrate having beneficial bacteria in it already
Some water conditioners can be used during emergency when you hit with sudden spike of nitrite. It could help neutralise nitrite.
Thanks! I’ll probably use like half of the tanks amount needed before, then he other half after! Thank so much!
Really loving the educational and hilarious content. Keep it up!
I add it to my bucket in the appropriate increments before checking the water temp and filling my bucket, but it’s good to know that it’s hard to overdose it, makes me feel a lot safer
This is one of the cleaniest tank I ever seen the color are bright too I mean wow dear friend 💞💞💕
Why did I think the conditioner was supposed to make the fish skin glow beautifully? 😂
The self pep talk XD can't even lol
Very knowledgeable :o
When do you add the conditioner? Of course after rinsing the shampoo! Hahaha 😂
This is totally fine, just one thing - pour the conditioner a little away from the fish. If they accidentally breathe in a concentrated amount, they can get sick.
I do my wc's with a tuppaware container and a pond pump connected with a hose. I first drain the tank about 40-50% every week. then i fill the container up with tap water and add prime. Then i pump it to the tank. But now i will add the dechlorinator to the tank and then the tapwater to the tank directly.
LUKE! Get fritz complete, 1 pump per 10 gallons, super easy to dose on big tanks, and it detoxifys ammonia nitrite and nitrates temporarily, and dechlorniates your water obv
I have Fritz complete!
Very great advice!
Have you ever accidentally flooded your room? If it were me, I know I would have.
Slightly-important notice: If you do bucket water-changes, you should probably dose i the middle of the water change and after.
When I had aquariums, I filled a jug or stock pot with water and added the conditioner then let it sit. Siphoned dirty water into a bucket and then poured in the clean water. Couple extra steps, lol.
I always full water change and add it while I’m filling up about half way then sit it for 5 minutes then fish in
Thank you! I'm setting up a ten gallon for a betta and I was worried about adding the correct amount of conditioner. Still in the cycling process.
You should make a Lil Dumpy memorial video
and Bubba
Thank you so much I was wondering this
Thank you for the information
Thanks! I recently got fish n this helped.
How do you keep your black sand so clean? Beautiful! ..and Ty!
Your water tank is so clean!
Hi Luke! Thanks for being an inspiration to start this hobby. I've always liked your videos but I have a very technical question in regarding this video.
Won't adding tap water (with a little bit of chlorine) also kill your beneficial bacteria? If so, then how is it safe to add the tap water directly to your tank? Even if you've already added the water conditioner, I don't think it can spread fast enough to your newly added tap water before it reaches and kills the tank's beneficial bacteria. I hope I'm making some sense.
As always, thanks for your advice.
Thank you very helpful
This is what I was looking for!!
Very cool I do this also
Thank you for this, more people need to see it because every time I see a creator fill their tank then wait to add dechlorinator after the fact a little piece of me dies on the inside, and I'm sure it does worse to their fish. Yeah sure they are only in chlorinated water for a few minutes but the chlorine burns their gills and other sensitive areas, and can cause the fish a lot of undue stress. I want to tell those people to hold their breath the whole time they change water to see how much their lungs burn, then amplify it because there is no escape for the fish, whereas the person could just breathe in. Sorry for the tirade but I have been reading a bunch of articles that are saying chlorine and chloramine kill more fish in the hobby than we originally thought and a lot of times it gets wrongly attributed to something else like ammonia toxicity.
Are you ok?
Glad im not the only one that does this
I love heavy metal too
I get my big bucket and do it before I put the water in. Because I don’t have that fancy thing that plugs right into my tap.
👍🏼 That’s exactly what I do
Dude, you've been helping me so much. I've been having issues cycling my tank because it's my first time, other than being a child and keeping fishes in bowls, keeping a proper tank. This info isn't always easy to sift through because so many people have different experiences and opinions but I trust your judgment 100% :) This is definitely going to be used knowledge in the future and it'll help prevent going back and forth when I do my water changes
I put into the hose before attaching it to the sink spout .So it goes through the tunnel assuring a pure mixation
This is good information to know as trying to measure out the miniscule amount of Prime during water changes with only 10litre buckets is a bit of a nightmare.
Every tank ive ever had i literally put my fish in right after i fill it up and put the water conditioner in now i have spong filters and i just squeeze them in new tanks too and so far its been just fine lmao
Bro i put them in water outside of the tank and leave them there for a day or smth and then replace them with the water in the tabk currently
I do it differently.. i get like a clean new tote or trash can of the gallon size that i use and add the water and conditioner in and wait for a while and pour it in the tank
I was cleaning my fish tank and realized that one of my blowfish tetras was missing an eye!! please help idk what to do or why this happened. he has 2 other glowfish tetras in the tank. him and one other were the originals and we got a new one recently that hurt the other fish but i thought it was resolved. could he have targeted the eye?!
call eye surgeon not youtube!
@@klownvandamn7946 he is doing ok he's swimming perfectly fine, and doesn't appear to be too injured, i've heard that sometimes they are not that serious. thanks tho!
@@Clara.sax33 good to hear lil fishy is done fine.
Did he end up making it? If you notice your fishes are hurt from attacking each other you may want to separate them or add more decorations in your tank so they see each other less. Also, get yourself some aquarium salt and seachem stress guard to help them recover
Basically, before and after you change the water.
If you have a bigger tank it's still better to fill separate and dose that instead of wasting more and dosing the whole tank
I usually have a pump in a bucket and dump the detox in the bucket. Sink dumps in bucket, then it pumps to my tank
Hi Luke, can you recommend equipment for rapid water changes. I'm looking at submersible pumps but theres so many! Thanks
I started using RO water and it is the best... It is more work... But takes away the need for water conditioner and adds the need to re add minerals, adjusting Ph, kh/gh, lol...
Thank you 🤔
I don't know how to do the water change. Does anyone have a link to that video?
I prepare conditioned water 1-3 days before changing my water out!
I use my 5 gal bucket and dose the water in the bucket before adding it to the tanks
Thank you so much
I put 3 inch of water in a 5 gal add my 2.5ml of aqua clear then fill it the rest the way then I scoop half of that with Tupperware into the tank then dump the other half
You can also use carbon block filter (with filter housing) as a water pre filter, to reduce/eliminate chlorine and/or chlorine.
But, both carbon block filter and water conditioner produce ammonia from chloramine as by product.
True, but many water conditioners like this one also temporarily detoxify that ammonia that’s a by product of the chloramine
Hello Wilson....conditioner removes both chlorine chloramine........and u said it ammonia. logic is if it removes chloramine then no amount of ammonia will be produced from it, only waste food poo will produce ammonia later on
I’m pretty sure most conditioners have ammonia removal chemicals in them too, so any trace elements of Ammonia left over after Chlorine has been neutralised will also be dealt with.
All you need to do, is add vitamin C to your tap water, and it will neutralize the chlorine in it.
me too
You are the reason I got into fish not goldfish but fish
SeaChem Prime is the best man. No other product compares to it
What goldfish is your favorite?
Water changes are for getting rid of ammonia nitrites and nitrates not to get rid of clorine
They are talking about water conditioner🙃
I have very clean well water which isn't very bad for fish but I still put some water conditioner in just to be safe
I add it to the bucket before I add the bucket to the tank.
Hello so I have an important question
Can I use betta water conditioner for all freshwater fish???
I’m all out and Amazon can’t deliver for a while but I do have betta conditioner
So can I use it Tysm!!!!!!
I have 36x24x24 tank with ranchu. Can i fill the tank of full water?
Can you add water conditioner to a bucket of water for evaporation I usually have a gallon bucket on the side I use to top off until water change
Idk my tap water isn’t bad at all, I either don’t add conditioner or just put some in the tank while I’m filling up the tank.
When ur mom makes u put tap water in ur fishes tank in every water change
What brand of water conditioner do you recommend
My small fish dies when ever I change water 😭
Luke is it save for me to use anti chlorine even tho I use filtered water
does it make a difference if i put my water conditioner in the tap water prior to putting it in the tank? im unsure if i should change my current method, thanks!
Sir best background color for gold fish colors
Is it necessary to match the temperature of the new water to the old water, or as long as the new water isn’t extremely cold it should be okay?
I go by feel, as long as it’s not more than 5 degrees you should be fine for less than 30% water changes
all that conditioner must raise tds. not that safe solids matter but i wonder how much your tanks measure...
Fish go burr
A question what about beneficial bacteria? I have been advise to add them so should they can also be added afterwards before putting new water in?
Do we need to check pH nh kh prior to using Water conditioner
I add when water is circulating
Would it not make more sense to dose the extra water you have in the black stock tanks? Then it’s already detoxed before making contact with the fish?
Ok my tank is green! I do water changes every week. I clean it like crazy. I was told to do a black out because it's super green even after a water change. I've ordered Purigen and a algae remover. Please tell me not to give up? I once have two small tanks with just snails and it did great? Ever sense I got my big tank it's been green. I will try all this stuff and pray it doesn't kill my snails and fish and shrimps .
You also could just let your water sit for afew days with the same results, but for free.
not these days. chloramine is added to water now and is way more stable, stays in the water. will need conditioner that also removes chloramines like seachem prime, which also neutralizes any harmful heavy metals too.
What kinda tank filters you use
I have guppies in a 30 gallon tank, and half filled water, is it okay to add a full cup if prime?
When I do my water changes, I put the water conditioner in my bucket filled with water and swish it around a bit before I put it in my tank, is this an acceptable way to do it?
That’s the way I do mine
Hi bro , could you please tell me for how long water conditioner works to detoxify chlorine ? Becouse my tank need around 25 - 30 minutes to be full so is one dose enough in the beginning of water change?
P s I use seachem safe.
Thank you for advice.
hi, i have a question. what will happen if you didn't remove the methylene blue in your aquarium?
I usually put the conditioners in my filter
That’s pretty stupid, only do that with bottled bacteria
@@obamama4632 oh ok thanks my guy
How long before should I put water conditioner, to be able to put the fish in the water?
How much conditioner for a 70 gallon tank?
Is water conditioner the only thing i should put in the aquarium to make the water safe and healthy?
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Just add alovera to the tank it helps with chlorine and keep the fish healthy.....
aloe vera does not do anything except break down and coat surfaces beneficial bacteria could grow on
How many cups of prime should I put on my 150 gallon tank?
Can anti chloride be used along with anti fungal ?
Can u add conditioner to betta fry?