I think thats why you add Cal Mag is it a RO thing why not just let your water sit out for 24 hours with an airstone?one more question for someone knowledgable in this area.
will dechlorination of my tap water with sodium thiosulfate products kill my soil microbes/mycorhizae.?i heard that sodium thiosulfate is sometimes used as an antifungal.
i know that i can remove chlorine by bubbleing air through water and or letting it stand for 24 hours. but im not sure if my tap water is treated with the increasingly used and infamous (chloramine) which cannot be remove in that manner. and i know chloramine and chlorine will kill my microbeasts.any advice would be great. thanks
I think thats why you add Cal Mag is it a RO thing why not just let your water sit out for 24 hours with an airstone?
We need to figure this out with out buying water.(chloramine) which cannot be remove in that manner.
if anyone has any info on the sodium thiosulfate treatment to remove chloramine and wether or not it will kill my soil microbes let me know thanksi know that i can remove chlorine by bubbleing air through water and or letting it stand for 24 hours. but im not sure if my tap water is treated with the increasingly used and infamous (chloramine) which cannot be remove in that manner. and i know chloramine and chlorine will kill my microbeasts.any advice would be great. thanks
good reasoning!The amount of chloramine left in h2o after allowing chlorine to off-gas is not going to be significant enough to hurt the microflora. You are adding the water to DIRT!! The chloramine is there in amounts that will help if organisms find their way into the water system but it is by no means a sterilizing solution. If chloramine was that powerful and abundant, you wouldn't need to use disinfectants in your bathroom, just tap water.
Come on people, use some brains here. Any chloramines left in your water are overwhelmed by the amount of organic material in your soil.
The only reason you need a chloramine remover is because fish gills get irritated by the compound but no one thinks that there is enough to harm the biological filtration in the tank.
i think subcool is more tired of the repetitive questions over and over and over and over and over again when answers are a few clicks away im sure he doesnt mind the help with questions The Godfather of Seeds needs a rest to DAMN RIGHT I SAID ITS SUBCOOLS THE GODFATHER of seedsI think we pissed Subcool off cause we jacked his thread. Im sorry
I was lead to believe the same thing. I use the small boy carbon filter and when i presented this question concerning chloramine killing my microbes to the guys at the local grow store. they had an aftermarket filter that you can use with your existing filter that eliminates any chlorimines.chloramine can only be removed with a carbon filter.