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Water quality HELP NEEDED

Sleepylotls95

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Still no eating today (check previous threads)

I decided to check my tap.
What do the levels look like to you?
I see between 0.25 & 0.50ppm
I do not ever recall having ammonia in my water. (Not well water, city water)

SO, I am going to buy gallon jugs of water to see if that changes anything.

Trial and error I guess.
 

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In order to give appropiate advice, a few questions:
Do you have a picture of your tank?
Could you post all of the water values here after doing a water test?
Does the tank have plants in it and if so which plants?
How many times a day do you feed your Axotl?
 

Sleepylotls95

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In order to give appropiate advice, a few questions:
Do you have a picture of your tank?
Could you post all of the water values here after doing a water test?
Does the tank have plants in it and if so which plants?
How many times a day do you feed your Axotl?
 

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Sleepylotls95

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In order to give appropiate advice, a few questions:
Do you have a picture of your tank?
Could you post all of the water values here after doing a water test?
Does the tank have plants in it and if so which plants?
How many times a day do you feed your Axotl?
This is a question about my tap water, not my tank.
 

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In the area where I'm from there is no ammonia in the tap water, it's forbidden to clean the water with chemicals. You could check the website of your water distributer and check how they clean the water and what the maximum amount of ammonia in their water is. Not sure if that info is public in the US, it is here.
 

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In the area where I'm from there is no ammonia in the tap water, it's forbidden to clean the water with chemicals. You could check the website of your water distributer and check how they clean the water and what the maximum amount of ammonia in their water is. Not sure if that info is public in the US, it is here.
I think I can find out.
 
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