Understood Rex and I'm not questioning your expertise and experience. I know you've hauled a lot of fish probably thousands of more miles than I have. I'm just saying from my experience, I've not had any problems with the ice from convience stores, and don't believe the manufactures use chlorinated or chloromene treated water because no one wants that taste or smell in their ice. Most likely if they do use municipal water they filter it out before they freeze the water.
And as I said with RAS systems according to the texts I've seen, regardless if chlorinated water is added to the system, as long as it is 10 percent or less it's not an issue. The reason I brought that up was even if the ice used is chlorinated it shouldn't be an issue.
It's also amazing how much ice it takes to drop the temp of a tank. I was surprised by this when i needed to drop the temperature of a 200 gallon tank by 20 degrees, to match the temp of fish I was bringing in from a pond. It took a lot of ice! I'll never do that again!
Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 03/12/14 08:07 PM.
