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On Jan 28, 2:00?pm, "cat daddy" wrote:
"Dan White" wrote in
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any ammonia or not. Water treatment plants add ammonia in the final
stage to turn chlorine
into chloramine. But, I think the author of the article probably just
mixed
up and misquoted what the professor was saying....- Hide quoted text --
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I didn't misquote the professor, and he did say other things that were
bogus as well. One other thing was running a tank filled with tap
water for a minimum of 2-3 weeks before adding fish. What for?
That one should add sea shells oyster shells to a tank to act like a
buffer and keep the water slightly more alkaline.
You just can't toss out general comments like that when everybody's
water is different. Some folks have hard, alkaline water anyway and do
not need to make it even more so.
And from what I know, adding sea shells is *not* something you want to
add to a freshwater tank anyway.
I've kept the article and have written to 2 different people from the
paper asking to whome and where do I send an article about setting up
a tank and correcting some things that were said that weren't correct.
It's already afternoon and I haven't gotten a response yet.

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I was referring to the journalist who wrote the news article as possibly
misquoting the professor or editing important info. Dave already gave you
the info that I didn't include, because I was just addressing the ammonia in
tap water issue. Dr. Lewis is, in fact, a retired professor emeritus with 38
years on the faculty at A&M.