Recommended Dechlorinator?

[reefbyremote]

Are there any dechlorinators that do not cause your skimmer to foam over?

I run tapwater and want to do a larger than normal water change.

Thanks in advance for your experience.

[tinman]

i use prime by sea chem and no more problems i believe it is because of the additives in the nutrafin stuff slime coat or stress coat whatever you want to call it.

[Leah]

I use prime as well.

[reefbyremote]

Thank you! I am on my way to get it!

[BC564]

why dont you run it through a UV sterilizer.

[Keri]

Originally Posted by BC564

why dont you run it through a UV sterilizer.

...I think a sterilizer just kills (well, "sterilizes" - makes them unable to reproduce) germs, it doesn't remove chlorine. If you let the water sit for 24 hours (which you do when it's mixing anyhow) the chlorine comes out on it's own. no?

[BlueWorldAquatic]

Prime, Hands down.

We actually use 5x the dosage, due to the Edmonton water we have to deal with.

Ken - BWA

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by BlueWorldAquatic

Prime, Hands down.

We actually use 5x the dosage, due to the Edmonton water we have to deal with.

Ken - BWA

+1 Wonderful product that you can't overdose.
That being said the best dechlorinator is a RO unit...

[pelle31]

Ross
if you can leave it sit and circulate with powerheads,you don't need to add anything.
24 Hours and your good to go. Thats all I ever did for my Discus and never had any problems. Our tap water is actually pretty decent. Just my humble 2 cents.

[reefbyremote]

Pelle/Darcy and all...

I have been running Medicine Hat tapwater since my start up last October. For water changes I am typically mixing it with a powerhead for 24 hrs. This definitely releases the chlorine and no dechlorinator is needed.

Darcy the reason I wanted to know about Prime was that today I had to do a quick water change due to my green bubble tip anemone going through a Koralia powerhead in my tank this morning...! The water was stinking within a short time frame so I wanted to partially change it asap and could not wait the 24 hours. I was posting from work looking for an answer so I had to cut my posting short as I did not have a lot of time and my typing skills suck!

Tinman you are right, I know from past expereince that the Nutrafin stuff has chemicals in it (aloe vera??) in it that causes skimmers to over foam and over flow. But I could not recall the name "Prime." Thanks to all for your help.

I did a water change with Prime tonight (no foaming!) and all is getting better... water still stinks but working on running carbon. Tonight corals are out, fish, and inverts acting normal so far. Keeping my fingers crossed!

The only loss to date is the GBTA which did not survive its suicide attempt.