Ammo Lock to remove Clorine and Chloramines?

texasguy

texasguy

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Well yesterday i saw that my API dechlor doesn't get rid of the ammonia from chloramines so I went and picked up some ammo lock to get rid of the ammonia. Well i noticed that on the bottle it says that it gets rid of chlorine and chloramines as well. Can i just use this and not use the dechlor at all?
 
Well I think its just incidental that in most normal cases like during water changes both are used to treat tap water which in some areas of the country contain both chlorine & ammonia, so I wouldn't worry about the dechlorinator as its insignificant to the problem compared to ammonia if that is what you are battling.

Your best bet is to get to the root cause of why you need to treat for ammonia rather then be treating it as soon as possible. Dont get me wrong I used to use that stuff allot and its expensive, before I learned to manage a well cycled tank, now I only use Prime (same thing) in small quantities for water treatment only..

But no, I personally know of no exclusive ammonia treatment except biological treatment.
 
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it's not a battle. I just noticed that the original tap water treater didn't remove ammonia after it broke up the chloramine, so i went and got the ammo lock with the intentions of just removing the ammonia that came from the chloramine.
 
well i already got it so too late now. but does it take out the chlorine well enough?
 
I used to use Jungle A.C.E, but cannot find it in gallon containers anymore, so I'm switching to Prime. It's the most cost effective water conditioner (that I can find) that treats chlorine, chloramines and ammonia.
 
To answer your question, Ammo-Lock will work like a dechlorinator. If you've already spent your money on it, I think it would be ok to go ahead and use it as your dechlorinator. Although, usually I think it's best to not add extra stuff to your tank, if there's no need, and the Ammo-Lock will add an ammonia blocker that you don't really need. As other people have said, the amount of ammonia released when the chloramine bond is broken is negligible.
Keep in mind, too, that Ammo-Lock can affect the readings on ammonia tests. If you're having an ammonia spike, the tests will still read the ammonia level as being high, even if the Ammo-Lock has neutralized it. This is the case for tests that do not distinguish between NH3 and NH4+.
 
Also, if you keep the pH below 6.8, ammonia levels are irrelevant and do not harm the fish.
 
When your Ammolock runs out, buy some Prime...:thm:
 
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