Does anybody on the forum use or recommend a chlorine filter.

Seen one that fits onto hose for when your filing tank when your doing a water change that removes heavy metals, chlorine, chloramines, etc from tap water.

I don't have one, but a friend of the family has one fitted to their tap (they don't keep fish by the way) the proper ones are quite expensive but I think it's worth it because if you're like me and drink bottled water, you'll get your money back within the year I think. Also, if they do remove all the chlorine properly, I think it would be excellent to have one of these, save you all that money on the dechlorinator.

I was only thinking about getting one anyway, if the taps are anything like the filter jugs you can get, I think you'll properly have some kind of filter material that you will have to change every now and then, be interesting to see how much they are how often they have to be changed.



http://www.brookwater.co.uk/cleartap.wat...ing.kitchentap.shtml

The water I have up here in Scotland is treated with chloramines. Below is some information I found.

There are many products sold for aquarium use that are specifically intended to remove chlorine. Several brand names include: Prime, AmQuel, AP Tap Water Conditioner, Aquasafe Plus, and many more. These all include Sodium Thiosulfate, which reacts with the chlorine (or the chlorine portion of the chloramine) to form harmless chloride ions. The chlorine is completely and totally removed.

There is one potential problem if your water is treated with chloramines, the dechlorinator reacts with the chlorine portion of the chloramine. The chlorine is eliminated, leaving the ammonia free in the water.

Ammonia is toxic to fish, even in low levels. So, if you use a simple dechlorinator that only contains sodium thiosulfate, you are solving one problem (chlorine) and creating a new problem (ammonia).

There is an ongoing discussion about Chloramine, and how much of a threat it really represents. Here is some more info about treating Chloramine with a product that only deals with the Chlorine:

Assuming a 100 Liter tank (about 26g):
If you do a 10% water change, you would end up with .18ppm ammonia.
A 25% water change gives you .36ppm ammonia.