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particles from the well started dying as soon as it came through the pipes and sat in a container and caused the ammonia. Does that make sense?

April 26, 2017ammonia came caused container dying particles pipes SAT Soon STARTED

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particles from the well started dying as soon as it came through the pipes and sat in a container and caused the ammonia. Does that make sense?

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It made perfect sense to me. We poured a bottle of Clorox bleach down her well the other day. Evidently that’s not an uncommon practice amongst well owners (who’d have known?). The man at the water dept said the bleach should dissipate within 24 hrs or so. I went over to her house today and tested a bucket of water she’d had sitting out for several hours. There was ‘0’ ammonia! Great news! So I think that solved the problem. I’d have never thought of something like that and I wonder how many other fish keepers using well water have trouble cycling their tanks for the same reason. She was pouring in water with ammonia in it. Keep in mind the ammonia only showed in her aged water, not straight from the tap. It really had me stumped and I’m so glad to have figured it out, so it seems.