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[quote=Anonymous]I use DC tap water and seachem Prime conditioner. The DC water does have ammonia from the chloramines, but the Prime will neutralize it long enough for it to be cleared by the biologic filter (in our aquarium it usually takes 3-4 hours for the ammonia to read zero after a water change). Some conditioners do not do this, so check your conditioner carefully. To be honest, before you add the fish you should consider running a "fishless cycle" (you can google it) with ammonia to get the water really ready. The downside of that is that the fishless cycle can take weeks. What finally worked for us was getting some material from the filter of an established healthy aquarium. Good luck! Congressional has never steered us wrong.[/quote]
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