Anyone test their tap water lately?

[squeeker]

I tested my tanks today with my new master test kit, and decided to test the tap water as well.  The readings for the tap water was as follows:

Ammonia:  0.25
Nitrite:  0
Nitrate:  0
pH:  8.6-ish

Is this normal?  I haven't tested tap water for months, but last time I did, there was no ammonia, and the pH was around 7.4!  If it makes any difference, I live near Baseline and Clyde, not far from Algonquin college.

[artw]

baseline and clyde. yeah I used to live over there and the PH always comes out high but goes down to around 7.4 after a day.   I never detected ammonia. you may wanna doublecheck that or call the city. ammonia should be zero.

[darkdep]

Is it possible that an Ammonia test could be picking up the ammonia stored in Chloramine?

[squeeker]

maybe... but I didn't use any water conditioner, so it shouldn't have changed anything.

Maybe I'll try to contact the city, just for fun!

[luvfishies]

My water fluctuates spring and fall as well. It usually settles to basically the same values after 24 hours, except NOW when there's so much freaking chlorine it STINKS!

[srenka]

I read ammonia in my water as well.  The city uses ammonia in their disinfection process.  Here is the link to city of Ottawa water quality reports:

http://www.ottawa.ca/city_services/water/wq_reports/27_2_1_en.shtml

sarenka

[squeeker]

Thanks, Sarenka!

[Mettle]

Ammonia in there, huh? Well isn't that incredibly annoying... We do water changes to have good quality water and we're just pumping in ammonia. How silly.

[Aiglos]

Ammonia in there, huh? Well isn't that incredibly annoying... We do water changes to have good quality water and we're just pumping in ammonia. How silly.

If you have a cycled aquarium this ammonia will be gone before your fish are even effected by it.