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Yadokari

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Chloramine is just another thing many, if not most, areas add into their tap water to make it safer for humans to drink. Not all conditioners will eliminate chloramine, although most will and the ones that aren't are switching over (soon I hope).

Prime eliminates it.
 

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most of the newer conditioners break the chloramine bond.. handle the chlorine to get rid of it then lock an H to the NH3 to make it NH4 the safer version of ammonia/ammonium.
 

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Chloramine is chemical compound like chlorine used to treat public water supplies. Some municipalities use it, others don't. It is removed from water the same way you remove chlorine by treating it with products such as Prime that remove both. The product must break down the chloramine compound and remove the resulting ammonia as well.

Chloramine does NOT remain in water treated with the correct product, so there are no worries about anything not living in treated water. If there was chloramine remaining, nothing would live in the water.

New tank syndrome on the other hand, which has nothing to do with chloramine, may be responsible. So, don't say it's because of the chloramine (not chloramines btw).
 
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