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So I was doing some reading on making a water flea (daphina) culture. A lot of what I read talks about having a master culture for green water and then individual cultures for daphina (to keep a couple of populations going). However I wanted to try simply doing green water in a normal size mason jar and simply seeding them when needed with a culture.

My tap however has chloramine in it. After doing some research I came across that UV light will assist in breaking down chloramine. So ideally I'd fill up a mason jar, set it out in the sun and in a week or two have some nice green water.

Has anyone tried this and not treated water with chloramine in it, but rather just left it in the sun to remove chloramine?

I've been using vitamin C nutrition supplement tablets to dechlorinate water. I've read that it works for both chlorine and chloramine. I take a 1000mg tablet and crush it into a coarse powder and dissolve that in about 50 gallons of water. Pure ascorbic acid powder would do the same (ascorbic acid = vitamin c). Before treatment, I can smell a distinct chlorine odor from the water. After the treatment, the water has no odor whatsoever.

fel,

Give us an update when you get your system going. I'm attempting a similar project and I'm flying blind

Hi Fel,

I have been using tap water for my fishkeeping and I have also done this for sometime now. All I do with the water is let it sit for a few hours say 6-12 hours and the chlorine and chloramines just gets off by forms of small bubbles, either you bake it under the sun or just keep it in a shade with much light is fine.

I know alot of people doing this and have had successful experience with it.


So, just leave the water till the small bubbles form.