That said, since I only dose a few ml of dosing solution per gallon of water in my tanks I do not treat the tap water I use for my dosing solutions.Chloramine, like chlorine, can be removed by boiling and aging. However, time required to remove chloramine is much longer than that of chlorine. The time required to remove half of the chloramine (half-life) from 10 gallons of water by boiling is 26.6 hours, whereas the half-life of free chlorine in boiling 10 gallons of water is only 1.8 hours.
Your fertilizers are fine. The only reason tap water is generally avoided is that there may be minerals and or "unknowns" that may ultimately affect your dosing.Dangit, I should of just got distilled water from the store.
Can anyone weigh in if my ferts are still useable?
Lets say you dose 4 ounces of your fertilizer mix per dose, and that is really a lot. Assume the toxic dose of Kriptonate is 10 ppm. If your 4 ounces causes a toxic problem in your 10 gallon tank, your tap water must contain about 1000 ppm of Kriptonate! You, and all your family are now surely suffering from acute Kriptonate poisoning!Your fertilizers are fine. The only reason tap water is generally avoided is that there may be minerals and or "unknowns" that may ultimately affect your dosing.
I'm not sure how you calculated that initial concentration of "kriptonate" (I assume used as a placeholder for any compound).Lets say you dose 4 ounces of your fertilizer mix per dose, and that is really a lot. Assume the toxic dose of Kriptonate is 10 ppm. If your 4 ounces causes a toxic problem in your 10 gallon tank, your tap water must contain about 1000 ppm of Kriptonate! You, and all your family are now surely suffering from acute Kriptonate poisoning!
That's just another way of saying the tiny amount of water that you dose with your fertilizers cannot possibly harm the fish or plants, since you do drink that water.
You are correct and I agree with you.This doesn't make sense to me. If it calls for distilled water and you use boiled water, you are actually making your water less pure by boiling it. Distilled is using the steam from boiled and allowing the steam to cool and condense making pure water. Boiling water just evaporates the pure water as steam and what you have left is tap water with a high concentration of the impurities. Needless to say the tap water would have been better.
I calculated it in my head - a vast empty space. :redface:I'm not sure how you calculated that initial concentration of "kriptonate" (I assume used as a placeholder for any compound).
Could you please explain?
Also, yes, tap water won't affect the final dosing though might affect solubility of (say) a micronutrient mix.
Nope; I thought it was just a placeholder for any random chemical.I calculated it in my head - a vast empty space. :redface:
You haven't heard of kriptonate????
Yes, of course, that is all it was. Kriptonate only occurs in the vast empty space in my head.:redface:Nope; I thought it was just a placeholder for any random chemical.