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Dora,
You are still putting far too much emphasis and worrying about the minute amount of ammonia coming from chloramine. It’s usually only 0.5ppm and then when only doing a 10% to 25% PWC, you’re talking 0.05ppm to 0.125ppm of ammonia… an amount equal to about what one fish might pee. Your bio-filtration should easily handle this minute amount of ammonia immediately upon it going into the tank.. just like it does your fishes urine and ammonia released via gill function and decaying detritus.
There is no need for people to spend extra money on Prime or Amquel if they have properly functioning tanks. If the tanks aren’t properly functioning, then they have other problems and Prime/Amquel are not necessarily the answer but rather doing proper tank maintenance, filter maintenance and keeping the tank properly stocked.
Don’t throw chemicals at every minor problem in an aquarium. Fix or don’t create the minor problems in the first place and you’ll likely never have major problems.
One day, you’ll actually do a V-8 smack to your forehead and say… “Oh, now I see what Lenny is talking about!” Until then, you will continue to have water quality issues, fish illnesses, etc…. and continue to waste money on trying chemical fixes when the “natural” solution is so simple.
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