Ammonia in TAP WATER

[DasArab]

i would just wait it out...

I believe ammonia in tap water is a sign of chloramines...

That is true.

However 4ppm seems very high. We have chloramine in the water here but it only reads 0.25ppm. Prime is your friend in this case. Prime breaks the chemical bond on the chloramine and converts the harmful ammonia in to ammonium which the BB in the filters can break down.

However I am wondering how your ammonia is at 8ppm in the tank and only 4ppm in the tap? All your fish accounted for?

 

[Kobeclone]

If Dr. Joe quits MFK, I quit too. LOL

If you both quit, there would be no MFK

 

[Kobeclone]

That is true.

However 4ppm seems very high. We have chloramine in the water here but it only reads 0.25ppm. Prime is your friend in this case. Prime breaks the chemical bond on the chloramine and converts the harmful ammonia in to ammonium which the BB in the filters can break down.

However I am wondering how your ammonia is at 8ppm in the tank and only 4ppm in the tap? All your fish accounted for?

I wonder that as well. Has a fish died and you haven't found it? Have you recently added fish fast? If the water from the tap is 4 ppm, another 4 ppm has to be coming from in your tank....

 

[DasArab]

Is your test kit in date? Another possability.

 

[L A R R Y]

That is true.

However 4ppm seems very high. We have chloramine in the water here but it only reads 0.25ppm. Prime is your friend in this case. Prime breaks the chemical bond on the chloramine and converts the harmful ammonia in to ammonium which the BB in the filters can break down.

However I am wondering how your ammonia is at 8ppm in the tank and only 4ppm in the tap? All your fish accounted for?

I don't have Prime, but I have started using Amquel+. Since the two 50% w/c, the levels has dropped to 4ppm no. All of my fish are accounted for and behaving as they always have been. I have not added any fish, nothing more is different than what I have been doing in the past year. Feedings still remain the same, I only feed as what they will eat in about a minute, and feedings only occur once a day.