ammonia rise

[eve]

that's something i have been wondering about since a few days now
i read about it on another board


he/she said that when he/she took water from the tap it had no ammonia at all
after letting it sit for an hour, and retesting ammonia it was up to 2ppm, and that not just once, but on several testings

i'm wondering where the logic to this one comes in, as i can't test it myself at the moment, i'm absolutely curious if an experiment could be done with that


cheers
Eve

[Carl]

My thoughts are that this water had chloramines, but to prove this I or another would need to duplicate this (assuming all the information was provided, which I question this).

Carl

[eve]

that's a really good question
i would love to be able to recreate that
i think it would be a very intersting experiment

[Carl]

i would love to be able to recreate that

If it can be recreated, as I still have some doubts as ammonia does not come out of thin air, so I would question his/hers methods.

If this water had chloramines, the ammonia would not likely separate out this quickly unless something like Sodium Thiosulfate were added
This is the most likely scenario assuming he/her was honest with methods; and here I would be curious to know how long it would take for the chlorine/ammonia bond to break without chemical intervention, my understanding is that chloramines are quite stable, so an hour is too quick without chemical intervention.

Carl

[eve]

hmmmm
gonna check if i find that thread again

[eve]

ok, found it again, hope you can access it
aquatropicalfish.com/forum/index.php/topic,3092.0/topicseen.html

[Carl]

My question would be the same as the three persons who answered him on the thread.

He did not give enough information to make an educated response.

Carl

[eve]

yeah, it just doesn't make any sense
that's the reason it buggs me so much, and also the reason i brought it up

let's see where this will go

i really wonna know how that is possible

but somehow i have the feeling he has a broken test kit