how long to leave tap water

[Richard Baber]

Originally Posted by STYRBJORN

How rude. Can you not tell one end from t'other?

Sorry...got to stop drinking the Southwold Dark Ale at lunchtime...

Richard

[tom00_uk]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

I'd agree that saving rainwater for summer filling is a great idea.
With regards to using tapwater, it all depends where you are and few of the people in this thread make that clear. Those of us with Yorkshire water can use it at any time, piossibly decanting it for a few hours to warm up - probably applies to a lot of areas using hill water. On the other hand, those getting tapwater which has been recycledmany times and treated chemically should definitely leave the water for a few days - this will allow the chlorine gas to evaporate but will do nothing for dissolved solids - there is no way of removing those without distilling or deionising the water: expensive and wasteful.

Yorkshire water is adding both chlorine and in some cases choloamine to the potable drinking supply
thankfully not adding flouride as its now being added to just about every other oral product

Unless you are off the mains using neat well/spring water then your water will have undergone treatment.

Chlorine will after some time breakdown and leave water, choloamine is a much more resistant chemical to decay and its use around the country is increasing

the reason you should treat water with a tapsafe product (the pond version is identical to the home aquaria version just cheaper) is these chemicals are added to try and stop levels of micro organisms building up in the supply system.

by owning a pond/tank etc you are not keeping fish/amphibians etc you are trying to make the conditions perfect for the microbes at the bottom of the chain as they make it possible for all the other creatures to happily live there.

By using neat potable water you are in effect knocking the system out of whack and the body has to go through a mini cycle again before its back to business as usual.


if you lived in say France then you would not have this worry as ozone is used to treat the water

[GCN lova]

Originally Posted by danny boy

hey,
my ponds water levels is getting abit low, so i just wanted to ask how long should i leave tapwater before its safe for a pond, i filled a bucket around a week ago and put a little of the pond water in it, will this be safe yet? thanks for reading

id say one day but two may be neccesary for safety but should probably ok if the pond water ratio is 3:4.

[Siskin]

Originally Posted by Tringa

The last time we cleaned out the pond we refilled it with tap water. The frogs and newts were back in before it was even half full and all the plants we put in are thriving.

I agree, I did the same and it didn't seem to hurt anything. I miss my pond