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My water company finally returned my call. They said they're using chloramine in the water but it's not on the report (srs ppl??). One final question if you don't mind, would boiling the water help reduce the initial amount of ammonia? I read online that boiling only gets rid of "free ammonia"...

Thanks for going further with the info. I can't really link all the reddit posts from r/bettafish and r/quarium where they always tell you "the goal is for everything to be 0ppm" (everything as in ammonia, nitrite, nitrate). But then when I was also learning about aquariums and googling stuff...

I do have a pothos :) (and another plant I don't know the name of) Thank you for the suggestions!! Pothos looks really pretty hanging off the edge of a tank

WHAT? I didn't even know that... Internet ppl would tell me I HAD to change it when it reached 5.0ppm.... That's some very good info to know. THANKS:)

Thanks!!! I'll be calling my water company. The water quality report for 2020 says 3.58ppm chlorine but no mention of chloramine. Maybe they're introducing it now. My current worry is that yes, my tank is converting all the ammonia but since it's so much ammonia, my nitrate levels go up to 5.0pm...

thanks! Tap water is 7.0ppm. With conditioner, it stays 2-4pm. My fish looks healthy but I still don't feel safe putting that amount of ammonia into my tank. I've a stable pH at 7.0-7.2 so I think the ammonia won't be toxic then. I've been trying to reach out to my water company all morning but...

Hi, I'd appreciate any help I can get here :( I prepared some tap water yesterday for a water change on my 6g, planted, freshwater tank, 1 male betta. Now, I always test my water before my water change. I had ~0ppm ammonia, 0ppm nitrite, 0ppm nitrate. For some reason, I decided to test my...