Tail And Fin Rot Spreading

[Miss Wiggle]

Seachems Prime is a water conditioner that removes chloramine and ammonia from tapwater as well, as the usual chlorine, which not all of them do.



Corleone: I was also under the impression that the chloromine compound does not break down into ammonia and chlorine within water, although I could be mistaken. I was talking about having pure ammonia in your tapwater which I thought was a very rare occurance and not the norm. Does an ammonia test kit test for just pure ammonia within your water or will it show a reading if there is chloromine present? Chemists

it's actually not all that uncommon to have some trace ammonia in your tap water. generally see it in this forum once every 2 months or something like that and we're a pretty small slice of the fishkeeping population as a whole.

 

[Corleone]

Some water conditioners remove ammonia entirely, some don't. In the UK, I've seen it posted that your tap water is legally allowed to contain up to 0.5 ppm of ammonia. According to my annual water report, some parts of my city have up to 750 ppb, which would be .75 ppm. Mine has none, but it isn't regulated by the state, so they could probably pump floor cleaner into my house if they wanted.