0 ppm ammonia 1 day a week

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JerryO

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I have 1 ppm ammonia in my tap water (think chloramine) so when I do my weekly water changes I treat with Prime. I have an ammonia alert thing in my aquarium (and I test with the seachem kit) and after my weekly water change I read about .05 ppm free ammonia for about 5 days. Then finally on day 6 I get 0 ammonia. Day 7 is a water change and it starts all over again.

Everyone seems happy and healthy.

Is this going to me my routine and I should live with knowing I dont have perfect water or is there something else I should be doing?
 
If it's working for you, I wouldn't mess with it.

What kind of ammonia tester do you have that's accurate down to 0.05ppm?
 
I've read (not sure if this is accurate or not) that tap water testing positive for ammonia contains chloramine instead of chlorine... is there any truth to this?
 
Yes, that is true. The properties of chloramines are similar to ammonia and can cause our hobby grade test kits to read a false positive.
 
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