Backyard Aquaponics
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G'day all.

Just had a thought ( it happens sometimes)

With melbourne on chloramine now i've been thinking about things.

When we use "tap water conditioner" on grid water with chloramine we break the chlorine-ammona bond (chloramine) and neutralize the chlorine.

BUT we are left with free ammonia in the water...................

So, i get to thinking, can the ammonia be off gassed line straight chlorine used to be?

I don't have time time, but would like someone to test this theory for me.

If you know that you are on chloramine this is what i would like;

get 20lts or so of tap water
use the conditioner at the rec. dosage for chloramine
test the water to veryfy that you have ammonia present
put an air stone in the water for say 12 hours
measure the ammonia again.

Steve

Suckered into it again..............

bucket with 10l of tap water
added conditioner
tested ammonia.....0.5
powerful 2.6l/h air pump inserted and switched on
Start time now .... time on posting

Just remembered this.......

Air pump batteries went flat so haven't had air for all the time, changed and will do another reading in the morning, not much change in reading - might be closer to 0.25

VB... you may want to read Steves post again.... I think we had concluded that the chloramine cannot be easily gassed off.

hehehe - Steve's gonna love that one, bit shitty he didn't pick up on vb's error 1st tho

...and no moderator intervention (deleting/modifying posts)

What error ?

What do you mean

You'll get one of those coloured dots above your name if you keep doing that

Fantastic news Steve, I now have a bucket of ammonia to feed to my duckweed

test results: ammonia not quite 0.5

now IM confused.

Did i earlier state that ammoia could not be gassed off and now asked for some one to try it My brian must be on AP meltdown.

VB? what error?


LOL i'm confused

VB is covering his tracks, hiding his human frailties

hmmmm, abuse of moderator powers, huh?

nah, any one could have deleted their own mistakes like that

i don't think they can if its been replyed to

Your theory needed to be proven (ammonia gas off) - for chrissake don't give vb any more ammunition to rub your nose in it