Fishless cycling and water changes question

[XimeD]

If you have chloramines in water, the dechlorinator will break it up and form ammonia anyway, which a mature filter should quickly take care of.

Excuse the use of "of" at the end of a sentence.

Yeah, this whole argument started as an explanation to why I couldn't use my tap water as a control for my liquid API test kit. I haven't had any issues with this (knock on wood!)

 

[XimeD]

If you have chloramines in water, the dechlorinator will break it up and form ammonia anyway, which a mature filter should quickly take care of.

Excuse the use of "of" at the end of a sentence.

Also, let's say I have chloramines in my tap water and I add nothing to it and test it with the API liquid test kit. Do chloramines show up in the test kit?

 

[PzIkHo]

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100623212450AAwfc5a Check this link out. This guy seems to know what he's talking about. It looks like if you're using the API master liquid test kit you should be alright