PistolPete Posted June 23, 2011 Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 SInce it has rained so much recently i thought i would test my tap water. ALmost 1 ppm of ammonia! ewww Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonNeko Posted June 23, 2011 Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 If it rains a lot ammonia can get into the tap water? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PistolPete Posted June 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 Well more debris,(organic and otherwise) gets washed into our sources of drinking water. Causing the wtp to treat their water a little stronger dose of chems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvision Posted June 23, 2011 Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 Sherwood Park gets its water from Edmonton, who treat their water with Chloramine (a combination of chlorine and ammonia). I don't know the exact method of how its added here, but I know in some places, they actually add chlorine and ammonia separately. You'll probably get an ammonia reading most of the time from the tap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkoD Posted June 23, 2011 Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 when you dechlorinate tap water it removes the chorine from the chloramine which leaves you with ammonia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PistolPete Posted June 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 yeah i am talking about untreated tap water haha but thanks for the lesson? usually my tap water tests 0 ppm ammonia i know this bc i test it quite frequently having a reading of one ppm is the highest i have had Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BettaFishMommy Posted June 23, 2011 Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 as long as you are using Prime for dechlor, it will convert the ammonia to ammonium, which is safe for fish, but will still feed the beneficial bacteria. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PistolPete Posted June 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 I do not add ammonia to my rays tank. This is why i test the tap water weekly. 9 times out of ten it reads 0ppm i mean yelllow as yellow can be. Sometimes it tests a shade of green, very light. But yesterday it was green! I dont think adding water with 1 ppm is good, treated with prime or not. I will wait a day or so and hope the levels drop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BettaFishMommy Posted June 23, 2011 Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 (edited) what i am saying is that Prime makes ammonia convert to ammonium. Ammonium is perfectly safe for your fish. your test kit will still pick up the ammonium on the ammonia test, but if you have used Prime at the proper dosage (or even a little more) then you have no worries on any ammonia touching your fish. during spring run-off, i too noticed ammonia in the tap water. dosed a bit extra Prime during water changes, and had no issue at all with any of my fish. Edited June 23, 2011 by BettaFishMommy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caprichoso Posted June 24, 2011 Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 I've just read this and am wondering if that's why I've lost 2 CRS within the last week. It happened after I did my usual water change of 50%. I'm sad, I've been having such good luck with them breeding and doing well up until this point. I'm not going to do a water change this week if the ammonia is still in the tap water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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