Water treatments for bait tanks

[Jay Fat City]

Have any of you had negative experiences using water treatments to de-cholrinate tap water? I ran a bait tank for the first time last year and I used water out of a local reservoir for my initial set up and pond water for the water changes. It seemed to work pretty well, but it was a pain in the balls to get 15 gallons of water once the ice set in.

I was looking at getting a bottle of Tetra Aquasafe. Anybody used that? I'm interested to hear your opinions.

Jay

[Chris Raymond]

If you simply let your city water set for a couple of days, it should off gas most of the nastiness.  At least that has been my experience. 

[Jay Fat City]

I don't know ... this Boston water is pretty sketchy!

[Reel_Force]

If you simply let your city water set for a couple of days, it should off gas most of the nastiness.  At least that has been my experience.

x2 most of the chlorine will gas off in 24 hrs. I would just get 3 - 5gal buckets and let the water in them sit for few days.   

[Jay Fat City]

Haven't had any issues with using tap water in my bait tank. Not sure if it was from the water treatment or letting the gas evaporate, but thanks for your input. My hands will thank you come February!

Jay

[Burtess]

Find out if your city water contains chloramines (chlorine + ammonia = chloramine).  Most areas up in Canada treat this way as it has much more residual effect and does not gas off like just chlorine gas. 

Water treated with chloramines will not be safe after sitting for a few days!

If your water is treated with chloramines you will need to use a treatment like Seachem Prime (this is pretty much best bang for the buck on the market) to firstly break the chlorine-ammonia complex and then to tie up the free ammonia that his released as this is toxic to the fish.

Burt

[hunter19301]

Place a bubbler in the water for several days to ensure the residual Cl is removed.  Also, as mentioned on another post, use the minnow slime drops!!

[seabast]

Have any of you had negative experiences using water treatments to de-cholrinate tap water? I ran a bait tank for the first time last year and I used water out of a local reservoir for my initial set up and pond water for the water changes. It seemed to work pretty well, but it was a pain in the balls to get 15 gallons of water once the ice set in.

I was looking at getting a bottle of Tetra Aquasafe. Anybody used that? I'm interested to hear your opinions.

Jay

I kept killing my bait after using tap water, then I found out why.... So I bought some kind of water treatment tank at BPS (makes the water blue), and worked really well and was pretty cheap.

[Derag2]

Use product called better bait... its what scheels uses... it turns the water blue.

[1moslab]

chlorine will leach out of the water in time ,chloramine will not  but I just treat my water with stress coat plus its about 1\2 the price of seachem prime and also helps to replenish the slime coat on fish.most water com. will give you a print out of their water tests.