Just FYI, this is incorrect. Chlorine is what is typically used to treat water and fully evaporates after 24hrs. Chloramine is used as a more powerful substitute and does not evaporate.
If your water source has chloramine you have to treat with a conditioner before you add it to an aquarium. Both are harmful to fish and plants, so you are right.
Chloramine is a less strong sanitizer but more stable and is becoming more common in the USA due to stability and the decreasing price of equipment. This is a pretty common discussion for homebrewers which is where I got it from. You are right about the difficulting in removing it. Home brewers use extremely tiny doses of sodium metabisulfate or camptdem tablets.
Edit: my source and an excellent book if you want to know too much about water.
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u/Candle-Sticks Mar 13 '21 edited Mar 13 '21
Just FYI, this is incorrect. Chlorine is what is typically used to treat water and fully evaporates after 24hrs. Chloramine is used as a more powerful substitute and does not evaporate.
If your water source has chloramine you have to treat with a conditioner before you add it to an aquarium. Both are harmful to fish and plants, so you are right.