Vacation food

[brandonsdad02]

No, a slow drip won't hurt. The amount of chlorine in a slow drip will evaporate before it becomes harmfull. When I had my 75 gal fish tank in the basement before I dug my pond I had a ice maker water line kit ran to my fish tank. I got tired of dragging the hose thru the house to fill the tank when I did water changes. When i would do water changes, I would just run my drain hose to a floor drain then turn the valve open on the water line. I never did treat the water because it was so dilluted with the other water in the tank it wasn't a problem. Never lost a fish from doing it that way in the 4 years I had that set up.

 

[Waterbug]

Chlorine does out gas pretty fast. Unfortunately chloramine doesn't and many cities these days are using chloramine.

 

[Frankp]

I've got a set up that is putting in a gallon per hour. I'm hoping this will keep up the the evaporation rate, we'll see. I have two ponds, one with fish and the other, much smaller is just for decoration. I have been pumping water from the small pond when the large was low. Then I just replace and treat the water in the small pond. Hopefully this trickle experiment will alleviate that.

 

[j.w]

Frank find out if your city water has the chloramine in it.
From Wikipedia:
Many animals are sensitive to chloramine and it must be removed from water given to many animals in zoos. Aquarium owners remove the chloramine from their tap water because it is toxic to fish. Aging the water for a few days removes chlorine but not the more stable chloramine, which can be neutralized using products available at pet stores.

 

[Frankp]

Our area does treat with chloramines. I use a product that treats chlorine and chloramines as well as ammonia.