Water conditioner not working???

[fisherman]

so i am trying to dechlorinize the water with some nutrafin aqua plus, but the water still smells like chlorine a bit.... i dosed it 3 times(10ml) already and waited a few hours... the water is sitting in a rubber maid bin being circulated with a power head.. did i get a bad batch of water conditioner or something??? need this water to be safe for my fries..

[charles]

check the expire date on the aqua+

[Victor]

chlorine is minimal in Vancouver waters and I do not believe it is that easy to detect by just smelling it. Are you sure it is chlorine that you are smelling?

[fisherman]

not sure if its chlorine i smell but it sure does smell like bleach which, i assume is chlorine since it comes out of our tap.. the aqua+ was just bought last week so im pretty sure its not expired yet..

[Morainy]

Some days my water smells so strongly of chlorine that I can smell it from several feet away from the tap. We're close to a point where the city sometimes tops up the chlorine. I thought that would change with the new water purification process and it has gotten better, but lately we've had several knock-you-over-with-the-bleach days. I find that adding water conditioner doesn't take the whole smell away then; I usually add extra. I'm not sure if the chlorine has been neutralized and still smells, but I just add extra dechlorinator anyway.

[dsouthworth]

There's no harm in double dosing..

[jobber604]

so i am trying to dechlorinize the water with some nutrafin aqua plus, but the water still smells like chlorine a bit.... i dosed it 3 times(10ml) already and waited a few hours... the water is sitting in a rubber maid bin being circulated with a power head.. did i get a bad batch of water conditioner or something??? need this water to be safe for my fries..

Relating to the fish tank, chlorine in it's natural state is gaseous. The chlorine added into our tap water is in liquid or powder form. As it mixes into the water system and out of our taps, the moment the water is exposed to the atmosphere (air), the chlorine will evaporate.

What you're smelling is a good sign that the chlorine is evaporating out from the tap water and not allowed to mix longer than is required in your fish tank.

If you're putting water back into the tank with water straight from the tank, it is better to let the water waterfall back into the tank so the tap water is exposed to the air; rather than placing the hose directly into the water inside the tank where the chlorine stays in the water column longer.

Not going into chemistry too deep, the water conditioner dechlorifies the chlorine by unbinding the molecules so the chlorine is oxidized becoming a gas.

I would not worry about smelling chlorine an issue, it's a good sign that it's evaporating.

As for the expiration of water conditioner, I've used expired (1 year) water conditioners without any ill effects; however, since there is aloe vera in some of the conditioners, just smell it to see if it's spoiled especially if you keep it in a place where it's been in the sun and essentially cooked. It'll smell something like a rotten egg.

I don't know why you would still smell chlorine after a few hours other than the fact that the rubbermaid bin or something has been bleached.

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[charles]

it has nothing to do with when you bought the aquaC+. There was a member here selling new bottles of AquaC+ for dirt cheap. I checked the bottles (brand new unopened) and there were 2 types of expiring date on them. One sep/2011, and the other one jan/2012. I don't mind getting them as I used them up faster than anyone else as I services many tanks for commerical business. I would just check the expire date on the bottle just to be saved.

[Jasonator]

When in doubt, leave it out.

24hrs in a clean bucket/bin (with no lid, of course) and the chlorine is gone.

I started doing this a while back when I switched water treatment brands and noticed sustained bubbles on the surface of all my tanks. I didn't like it.
So I changed my ways a bit to filling a bucket and leaving it out. This works great for top-ups, but with water changes, I use treatment because I'm too cheap to buy another heater and keep the bucket water warm enough to put directly in the tanks

[Morainy]

This has been a very interesting thread for me. I never knew that water conditioner could expire and have never checked the expiry date. Ever. In, like, 30 years.