My tap water

[Roller]

My tap wateris reading 8.0 Ammonia can I treat it and get it down to zero ????

 

[coralbandit]

Do you drink this water?

 

[BBradbury]

Ro...

Check with your public water people. That's a lot of ammonia to be in public water supplies. You could have a plumbing issue that needs to be addressed. A pH of 8.0 isn't a problem for most aquarium fish, are you talking about this reading?

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[Brookster123]

That would be the chloramines?? Give them a call? Where do they source the water from? My home is sourced from a river, they use quite a bit of chemicals in the processing.

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[Roller]

from a well

 

[Roller]

Do you drink this water?

It is our public drinking water but I do not drink it but do cook with it, but not anymore..

 

[nirbhao]

What test did you use?

 

[coralbandit]

Like Brook said often chloramines will register on an ammonia test since chloramine is chlorine and ammonia bonded together...
You can find out test results by looking up your supplier on line...
Prime detoxifies ammonia so an active biological filter can consume it before it harms fish, but you sound to in the 5x usual dose range to start.The ammonia will still show after prime, so until next day it is hard to tell if you have done things properly...

 

[Roller]

What test did you use?

Fresh water test kit for aquariums comes in 2 bottles.

 

[nirbhao]

Fresh water test kit for aquariums comes in 2 bottles.

Are the labels on these bottles yellow?

 

[pmvaldon]

Ammonia 8...sounds like you hav a contaminated well water source.

 

[swissysrule]

So what should they do?

 

[Roller]

yes they are yellow

 

[nirbhao]

Did you get your well checked out?

I wasn't clear on which test you were using, which is why I asked about the color of the labels.