Do you need to add a water conditioner when changing the water?
Hello, I got a water conditioner from Dehner that's supposed to remove chlorine, bind heavy metals, and has a "mucous membrane protection formula." The employee said we should add this product every time we change the water, before we pour it in. But I've also heard that this is unnecessary. So what now?
LG
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In tap water there are no heavy metals and no chlorine, except in rare cases where what goes wrong with the bacterial load. In these rare cases water heaters can do something. But not to let the water stand. In addition, one learns from exceptional chlorination when you take care, and in many places, something like that never happens or even in 30 years.
Water heaters are generally not necessary. The "sulfur protection formula" is a veterinarian claim – there is no such thing.
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Hello liverworstluis,
you've just got a daunting salesman who has boosted his sales!
This means is also not necessary in Vienna, see drinking water analysis
Commission Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2012 on the common organization of the market in milk and milk products (OJ L 347, 20.12.2012, p. 1).
Even if here some very important write that they use it because they also have an aquarium, the answer is definitely no, as the majority of the answers that I connect!
and to substantiate this, here the statements from the DRTA archive, which is really very trustworthy and independent now
https://www.drta-archiv.de/water/water treatment provider/
It seems geologically an interesting area. Otherwise really nice water 🙂
No, this stuff is as liquid as it is superfluous.
In our tap water there is no chlorine (except in disasters, but then you have other things in your head than a water change in the aquarium). In addition, chlorine is so volatile that it already disappears from the water when it is allowed to slip out of the crane into a bucket.
Likewise, our tap water is free from heavy metals. And all other claims such as "sulfur protection" and others – are great advertising statements – but no more.
It doesn't have to be a disaster. Even a small leakage can lead to contamination with bacteria under unfavorable conditions, then the line network must be temporarily chlorinated.
@HOSUS meant that I probably bleached the water in Vienna so I don't know what to do now
Then ask your water supplier for…
In most Central European countries tap water is the most controlled food ever. The legal limits for chlorine and heavy metals are extremely low, so that the water can be drunk without danger. The water heater does not work.
If the water is chlorinated in exceptional cases, it is sufficient to fill it with a fully twisted shower in a bucket and then leave it to stand. Chlorine is an extremely volatile substance.
What is a mucous membrane protection formula? How's that supposed to be in a blue liquid? Sometimes Aloe vera is advertised, although there is no evidence that fishing is using anything.
The only water heater with a really positive effect consists of the humic acids and other organic substances which are present in surface waters but which are almost completely absent in well and spring water and in tap water prepared for total colorlessness. These substances, which dissolve from dead wood, autumn leaves, alderons or also from peat, all dye the water not blue but yellowish to brownish (but clear as tea, not turbid). A concentrate is brown to black, but never blue. You can buy it all (for expensive money) or collect it yourself at the appropriate season. There are also alder and oak extracts to buy in the bottle.
This depends on the area you live and how your water is created.
In some rural areas, people are still fed from their own well (house wells) and it can happen that water is particularly hard (cold) or minimally loaded with heavy metals. Then it would make such a water preparation sense.
Check out your water quality!
So I live in a big city (Vienna)
There the water is safely chlorinated!
It doesn't help, it doesn't hurt! 😉
I always use one!
So, with a preparer?
Hello I have an aquarium myself and yes you have to make water more clean the bigger liter the more preparer but in principle rich 2 3 drops
No!
Only if you want to breed and get icey values from the line or you have sensitive animals and pour water out of the line.
even then does not use water heaters – then it only uses water from an osmosis plant or a full desalinator and then prepare it according to the requirements