Monochloramine and PGP Bacteria

Kush Out The Ass

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So I use tap water in my apartment for filling my reservoirs. The San Francisco water department uses Chloromine instead of Chlorine.

So I was wondering if there is anyway to remove Chloromine besides Micro Filtration with a high quality RO system. I'm trying to add bacteria for my roots and all. My apartment has odd size fittings and so I can't use RO. Am I fucked, then...?

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Edit: According to wikipedia I can superchlorinate the water with 10ppm of chlorine and it will dissipate the chloromine then I let the chlorine evaporate and I'm good to go. Unfortunately, I already filled my res with my hydro nutes and water glass. So would adding the 10 ppm of chlorine affect the nutes or anything like that? They are synthetic. Want to be sure...thanks :leaf:

PS wiki also claims 1000mg of high grade vitamin c will de-chlorate75 gallons...

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Double Edit: So fish stores sell water conditioners because chloramine and chlorine are obviously harmful for fish...

So if you need to treat you water...

http://www.aquariumguys.com/instachlor8oz.html

1tsp per 80 gal and cheap!

I'll have to spend more time in fish stores ;p
I'll leave the thread for the next guy with chlorinated water...
 
also pool and pond sections in the local lowes and home depot carry chloramine removers and algae removers and other things that are meant in many cases for punds with koi. However I prefer to leave it all in there and hope for less algea in my ebb table and use gh three part mineral nutes with hardwater micro. Chem nutes, dont care. Altho some myco fungi would be awesome, i guess. However with the chealates and the roots sitting in media like rockwool where they get direst contact with nutes prob no need. Also bacteria make ferts avaialble to roots by breaking down organic material. IN chem hydro there is no organic material to break down so pretty much pointless. Gh adds buffers to correct tapwater ph too. So easy. I have seen organic hydro plants and they looked diseased if you ask me compared to mineral systems right next to them. I am about the ease for my mj at least. GL.
 
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