Quote Originally Posted by wh33t
Quote Originally Posted by davidstcldfl
Quote Originally Posted by wh33t
I bubble out any new water to remove the Chlorine smell.
That works for 'chlorine'....if you have 'chloromines'....it won't (well, maybe in a month of bubbling.. ) A quick call to you water dept might be worth the effort. It would eliminate one possibility...
Well one thing worth noting is that I do normally use this stuff called "Prime" which apparently removes Chlorine and Chloromines and the lady at the pet store did tell me I would need to use it, but I wasn't sure how that reacted with plants so I figured I'd just bubble the water but perhaps that's the problem. I sure hope it doesn't harm my big healthy gold fish.

The plants seem great anyhow.
Yea, I wouldn't add any weird chemicals unless you know exactly what's in it. Like David said chlorine will "bubble out" but chloramine will not.

OKAY, so I was right. Your fish most likely died and continue to die due to the chlorine/chloramine.

http://www.crd.bc.ca/water/waterquality/datatables.htm
http://www.crd.bc.ca/water/waterquality ... e3_003.pdf
http://www.crd.bc.ca/water/waterquality ... JGAN10.pdf

Our friend Google has shown us the way! Your water contains chlorine, monochloramine, and dichloramine. In other words: SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR LITTLE FRIENDS!!!

How big is your system? You can truck in some RO or distille water or buy a reverse osmosis unit for your house?

Since your tank and filters are in place, you can try loading it up with a lot of activated carbon and letting it run for a day or 2. Change the carbon half way through. It's slow, but it does remove it.

If you're more of a chemist, you can try this:
Removing chloramine from water

Chloramine can be removed from tap water by treatment with superchlorination (10 ppm or more of free chlorine, such as from a dose of sodium hypochlorite bleach or pool sanitizer) while maintaining a pH of about 7 (such as from a dose of hydrochloric acid). Hypochlorous acid from the free chlorine strips the ammonia from the chloramine, and the ammonia outgasses from the surface of the bulk water. This process takes about 24 hours for normal tap water concentrations of a few ppm of chloramine. Residual free chlorine can then be removed by exposure to bright sunlight for about 4 hours.