Tap Water Conditioner / Fishless Cycle

[The sea monkeys Rock]

Being new to aquatics I have some new questions. I just wanted to write the post to get some confidence that dechlorinates actually work.

I am using the API Tap Water Conditioner. It says use 1 drop per US gallon. I have a very small 3G tank. Just seems odd that three TINY drops are going to rid or reduce significantly the chlorine AND the heavy metals.

I think my scepticism is mostly out of ignorance, I accept that. My tap water is so hard you could stand a tea spoon up in it. GH is around 180 and KH 40 according to the 'hard to read' API strip test. Its well known to be hard water though as there is a lot of lime which the ground water filters through.

So would the hardness of the water impede those tiny drops from doing their job?

Many Thanks

 

[Scottyhorse]

Yep, those are fine. I use those myself. Seachem prime is a good one also.

 

[armymp327]

that should be fine, it does seem odd i will admit but it does work very quickly, if you think its not doing the job then add 5 drops instead of 3