carsona246
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So i'm visiting my parents house for christmas, and decided to bring the axolotl's with me, because no one could take care of them at home. Unfortunately I discovered our tap has ammonia in it. After just 4 hours of being in the new tank the ammonia was at .5! I couldn't believe it, and could not get the ammonia down after doing multiple water changes. After a while I finally tested the tap, and got a reading of .5. I ended up deciding my test was bad, and went to get a new one this morning, and the new one read .5, as did a local pet store test. I've gotten plants to help with this, but is there anything else I can do? I went out and bought 2 5 gallon jugs of bottled water, but that too has ammonia. I'm about to go find some distilled water gallon jugs and fill the 20 gallon with those, but is there anything else I can do? I have a juvenile, and a larvae in the tank, so I would prefer the parameters to be perfect, but unfortunately I'm not at home where I would have access to enough plants to suck the tank dry of ammonia