Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => New Fishkeepers => Topic started by: Cazzybaby on April 24, 2014, 12:56:39 PM
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When a dechlorinator says use 1 outer capful for 50litres and 1 inner cap ful for every 10 litres does this mean the outer cap ful fills the whole cap or JUST the outer ring?
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To be honest, I'm not sure. Does it give a number of mls for a capful of either type? The easiest way is to get a babies doing syringe and measure it that way. A syringe is also useful if you don't want to add water in multiples of 10 litres. For instance, my bucket holds 7.5 litres so I'd have to dose 3/4 of an inner capful per bucket which would be hard to measure.
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Yes I think I'll get some syringes today to make things more accurate . Thank you
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I've found that the King British range of aquarium additives/fluids tend to come with a small plastic 'syringe' as standard, including their declorinator & medications - don't know what other's opinions are on their products but the ones I've used have all done 'what it says on the tin', so to speak.
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They may have changed things since I last bought them, but the trouble I had with those pipettes is that there was no line marked so I had no idea where to fill them to ???
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The ones I've got over the last 6 months or so have markings for 0.5ml and 1ml so it looks like they've since resolved the design flaw! :D
I also find that a tiny measuring 'jug' comes in handy - I have a 30ml one which includes markings for 10ml & 20ml.
However, if the measurements on the bottle are only given in 'caps' with no reference to measurements in ml, having a small pipette still may not help! :-\
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Cazzy - what is the brand of dechlorinator you have? If someone else uses the same one, they may have a better idea about capful sizes.
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It's bob Martin Neptune water safe. It fortunately does give the dose in mls too.