My water company uses chloramine to treat the water. Adding a simple water conditioner (Topfin water conditioner) apparently only breaks the chloramine apart and neutralized the chlorine part of chloramine, leaving ammonia behind. I test pure tap water with an API master kit and get an ammonia level of 1.0 PPM. After adding water conditioner I still get a reading of 1.0 PPM. ~~ I have tried using topfin's ammonia reducer which claims to neutralize chlorine, chloramine, and ammonia. Using this I get a reading of approximately 0.5 PPM. It's kinda hard to tell because the colors for 0.25 and 0.5 are so close. I am new to this stuff, but I am not fond of using many chemicals in my tank. Does anyone out there have to deal with this problem? If so, what are you doing to kill the ammonia? Any suggestions from anyone else on what I can try to get the ammonia level down?