iisfaq Posted March 10, 2011 Report Share Posted March 10, 2011 Hi All I luckily did not loose my tanks in the Feb22nd Quake - One tank 4" the stand broke and the tank hit the wall but stayed horizontal even through mag 5.5 after shocks. I have lost a few fish including one large discus. I kept heat + air to the tanks (filters stopped and I could not get them going until recently) via an invertor connected to my car for 3 days and then by a petrol generator for the next 10 days until we got power back (that was monday evening) I am now in despirate need to do water changes. I have been buying small amounts of water and using that but it is not cost efective and probably does not help a lot. I have an aqua one 880 which is about 350 litres, and a 4" bow front which is about 250 litres (currently sitting on the ground empty), and a hospital tank about 80-90 litres (holding fish from the bow front where the stand broke) I read on another forum post about some chemicals to treat clorine (they were talking about turtles I think) * sodium thiosulphate * SEACHEM PRIME I have 7 Large discus in one tank and general community fish in the other. I just do not want to stuff anything up and kill them after all the hard work to keep them alive over the last few weeks. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkLB Posted March 10, 2011 Report Share Posted March 10, 2011 Prime or Stress Coat are the products that you're after. Other alternatives are collecting rain water or getting water from an artesian well. What area are you in? I have a well if you are close by, in the Linwood/Phillipstown area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdspider Posted March 10, 2011 Report Share Posted March 10, 2011 Find somewhere that has it's own artesian well that is not connected to the mains and take all your containers to fill up there. Try your local schools, lots of them seem to have wells. Look out for signs on the road at random properties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iisfaq Posted March 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2011 Prime or Stress Coat are the products that you're after. Other alternatives are collecting rain water or getting water from an artesian well. What area are you in? I have a well if you are close by, in the Linwood/Phillipstown area. I am in cashmere, other than going to work (riccarton) I have not been out anywhere. I have also heard that leaving water in the sun can help remove clorine. Maybe a combination of the two - Prime or Stress coat + sun? Do you know how long the prime or stress coat takes - is instant? or 30 minutes etc? wait 6 hours to be safer? Thanks for the offer of the water - I will try to decide what action to take Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBossPants Posted March 10, 2011 Report Share Posted March 10, 2011 Stress coat, etc are pretty much instant, although I like to let mine sit for a couple of mins. You do not need to use any other method eg. Sun if you are using the correct dose rate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnaM Posted March 11, 2011 Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 You are close to the Selwyn St artesian well at South Intermediate school. Selwyn St runs parallel to Barrington St and Colombo St...you can get on either Barrington or Colombo and turn into Milton St and you can find Selwyn St. Head down Selwyn St, away from the hills, and the school is very close. Apparently its particularly pure water there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iisfaq Posted March 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 You are close to the Selwyn St artesian well at South Intermediate school. Selwyn St runs parallel to Barrington St and Colombo St...you can get on either Barrington or Colombo and turn into Milton St and you can find Selwyn St. Head down Selwyn St, away from the hills, and the school is very close. Apparently its particularly pure water there Thanks I ended up getting some Prime from Oganisum. chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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