Ammonia showing up or not?

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would using an airstone to bubble the water be more effective in removing the chloramine?

Home brewers have tried aeration, along with standing water and boiling water, and have not found it very effective at removing chloramines. They've even found rapid boiling could take hours to destroy the chloramine.
 
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would using an airstone to bubble the water be more effective in removing the chloramine?
Air stones cannot bubble out chloramine, it is possible to lessen it by running water trough a tail carbon filled tube, very slowly, but this is really not practical in most situations, because of the volumes needed for water changes.
A small dose of dechloraminator goes a very long way, for the safety of our fish
and ....I agree your water is not "bad", it is good for humans, but often what is good for human health, is not good for fish.
Chloraminated water beyond just being used for safe drinking water, has the ability to prevent Legionaires disease bacteria from growing in air conditioning systems, and preventing the buildup of many bacteria like Mycobacterium, etc that the short half life of chlorine alone often cannot take care of in long term situations.
 
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Is setting up an RO unit an option? Or just some carbon blocks?
 
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This might be a good read to start you off.

 
Carbon blocks are just enough with the right flow. Typically carbon blocks are put before the membranes in order to protect the membranes.

That is why I said if you could just install carbon blocks that might work. Break the chloramine bond and use prime or let it aerate out. But if you could install carbon blocks and an RO system, you would be set, depending on concentration of chloramine.
 
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great info thanks everyone! RD. RD. I check out that thread thank you for sharing that link! I have a couple questions tho.
How do I check the chlorine/chloramine content of my tap water?
Also another question, (if you use this seachem prime to detoxify ammonia, it still shows up on a ammonia test but is not toxic anymore?) is this permanently going to be the case, like when will I be able to get a correct ammonia reading from testing water again after using the seachem prime to ”detoxify” ammonia? Thanks for any info and for pointing the path of learnly stuff hah!

edit: quote from the link “To detoxify nitrite/nitrate in an emergency situation use up to 5 measures to each 40 L (10 gallons). Use fish to gauge toxicity reduction as test kits will still show presence of nitrite/nitrate even when detoxified.” I guess you were talking about nitrite/nitrate still showing on tests. This is what I was referring to about ammonia showing up. Will ammonia also show up or is it just the nitrite/nitrate that continue to show even after detoxify?
 
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great info thanks everyone! RD. RD. I check out that thread thank you for sharing that link! I have a couple questions tho.
How do I check the chlorine/chloramine content of my tap water?
Also another question, (if you use this seachem prime to detoxify ammonia, it still shows up on a ammonia test but is not toxic anymore?) is this permanently going to be the case, like when will I be able to get a correct ammonia reading from testing water again after using the seachem prime to ”detoxify” ammonia? Thanks for any info and for pointing the path of learnly stuff hah!

Check you water quality report for your water district. It's all online. Or buy an expensive chloramine reader.


Once you are cycled and have enough biological media, you can test for ammonia a 4-5 days later after a water change.
 
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Just want to sure this is what zi am looking for lol says 2.64 ppm chloramine present does this mean there is no chlorine if it has no data?

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