Hydroguard ok to use in tap water?

SMT69

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• Aug 28, 2018

• #1

I'm switching from coco to DWC....
Is Hydroguard ok to use in tap water if i bubble the water first to air off the chlorine?

I have good tap water (hawaii) 43ppm total outta the tap. Will the bennies survive in tap water running dwc ?

 

rkymtnman

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• Aug 28, 2018

• #2

are you sure its chlorine and not chloramine?

you can bubble off chlorine but not chloramine.

 

SMT69

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• Aug 28, 2018

• #3

not sure

so if it has chloramine, then i cant use ? i was thinking chlorine was the only thing i had to worry about

hmmm, unles they add it in, our water super clean

 

5BY5LEC

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• Aug 28, 2018

• #4

I run Orca and Hydroguard with tap water and it does not affect the bennies as far as I can tell.
If you are really worried there is some shit brewers add to the water to get rid of it.
Sodium Metasulfate or something like that. It might be potassium haha but check it out.

You can order a water quality report that will tell you if it has cloramine.

 

rkymtnman

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• Aug 28, 2018

• #5

SMT69 said:

not sure

so if it has chloramine, then i cant use ? i was thinking chlorine was the only thing i had to worry about

hmmm, unles they add it in, our water super clean

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yeah, if it's muni water they add one or the other (usually)

you can always run a sterile res too with something like h2o2 or hth pool shock.

 

Kami Samurai

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• Aug 30, 2018

• #6

I have very hard tap water and I used to just let sit for 24 hours with some air stones going.
Reverse Osmosis is always better for a couple hundred bucks you can get a simple R/O System

 

athomegrowing

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• Apr 11, 2019

• #7

Seachem prime removes both. I use it on my tap in dwc.

 

WeedFreak78

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• Apr 11, 2019

• #8

Go to your towns web site and find the water report. It'll tell you what's in it, then you can figure out what to do. Hydroguard works fine in tap water once you remove the chlorine /chloramine.