ADDING chlorine to disinfect water - dosage????

[shoveltrash]

so I think I've narrowed my *problems* (i.e. cause of Discus death) to contamination of my well water with Iron/Iron bacteria. textbook orange slime developing in water storage barrel - has gotten more pronounced & coincided with the onset of sickness of my Discus .

I have put a 13w UV sterilizer in my water storage barrel, but want to add chlorine, just to be sure of disinfection!
does anyone know the effective disinfectant dosage amount of chlorine per gallon?????





funny, searching here all I can find are a gazillion posts about removing chlorine LOL. none about "adding"

[TURQ64]

RO, RO, RO your boat....

[Bud]

I want to say a 8- 10% solution?

[Chicago Discus]

RO, RO, RO your boat....

I agree with gary trish RO is the way to go

[shoveltrash]

"RO your boat," yes, I've got my 100gpd unit here ready to be installed.............but RO doesn't remove bacteria, does it?????

thanks Bud - but i'm piss poor at mathematics, so say 55g --- how do I calculate 10% solution? is it really 5gallons? (seems like a LOT)

[Chicago Discus]

"RO your boat," yes, I've got my 100gpd unit here ready to be installed.............but RO doesn't remove bacteria, does it?????

thanks Bud - but i'm piss poor at mathematics, so say 55g --- how do I calculate 10% solution? is it really 5gallons? (seems like a LOT)

Trish the only think I'm afraid of is chasing the chlorine out after you disinfect its going to make your water unstable......

[ShinShin]

I would say a cup or two would be fine.

Mat

[Bud]

Of course that rate is for general equiptment cleaning,I really dont know about water sterilization,but youre going to ariate it out soooo.And a ++++1 to turq!Im running a post on purewater clubs ro systems to get some feed back on quality of their units

[Keith Perkins]

Trish, what you probably really want to do first is make up a bleach solution of a few gallons and lightly scrub all the surfaces of your water reservoir etc. and then switch over to RO if you're worried about bacteria. Empty out the reservoir after your done, let it completely air dry, a quick rinse just to be safe and you're good to go. You sure don't want to make up 55 gallons of bleach solution and you definitely don't want the chlorine getting into contact with your discus.

[TURQ64]

here's some info..
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/e...sinfection.pdf

[shoveltrash]

I got Buckeye's premium 100gpd unit - talked to Russ on the phone who was a HUGE help .

but I REALLY want to cut the RO with tap.......for pH stabilization. so I'm back to having iron bacteria in the water, unless of course that UV sterilizer sitting in my barrel actually does the job (unsure about this).

he only think I'm afraid of is chasing the chlorine out after you disinfect its going to make your water unstable......

I didn't realize that chlorine removal destabilizes water?

[Keith Perkins]

here's some info..
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/e...sinfection.pdf

Gee, at those concentrations you could fill the whole 55 gallon drum.

[eaglesfan3000]

Call the county to come and inspect your water, they should do it for free. That's what I did when I couldn't get an accurate reading on my PH. Come to find out my high PH test kit is FUBAR and was't reading correctly.

[ericatdallas]

I don't use a well, but I learned about sodium thiosulfate from a friend who said his father-in-law had a well and used it after super-chlorination. Is that okay to do?

I would say +1 to RO filter though.

[joanstone]

http://www.ci.bellevue.wa.us/pdf/Uti...fact_sheet.pdf