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Also should I be adding any bacteria start up products like fritz zyme or micro bacter in between changes?

Just did another water change and got ammonia to .25ppm and nitrite is at 1.0ppm should I keep doing multiple a day until everything is in order?

Morning after the water change and ammonia is at about .50ppm-1.0ppm but now nitrite has jumped to about 2.0ppm what is going on ��

I've never done 2 in a row before but ammonia is at 1.0ppm and nitrite is still at .5ppm hopefully it doesn't spike again in the morning

After 50% water change ammonia is still at about 1-2ppm and nitrite is at .5ppm

Hopefully everything will go back to normal when I start ramping up the water changes. I just didn't know if my cycle crashed completely because my nitrates never changed

Ok so just start doing multiple 50% changes to see if the ammonia drops? That will also drop the nitrite as well right?

I have both prime and an API water conditioner I just want sure which to use for such large water changes

And should I be dosing these changes with prime? Or just a regular water conditioner?

I figured it wouldn't cause an issue to the cycling I was using it when establishing the tank because I couldn't get it to initially cycle due to extremely low pH. I don't use it very often but after the outage I had a HUGE pH dip usually it's pretty consistent at 7.4 before that. I have to...

The CO2 drops my pH pretty low so I use an alkaline buffer to raise it. I've been using this alkaline buffer every now and then since establishing the tank so I never really thought it was an issue as it's never caused any problems before

How big of a gap should there be between these changes? And should I be dosing with prime when I do them? It's just such a strange situation because my other tanks are coming up normal. I have to assume when I had that overnight power outage it crashed my cycle?

So multiple water changes in a day? I'll try that when I get home and hopefully it'll help. This tank has been running just fine for the past year that power outage really threw everything out of whack and I havent been able to gain control since. I just don't know what caused this ammonia spike...

I've had my tap water tested due to this being an issue for the last month and it's nothing there. Out of curiosity I tested right after a large water change last night and there was no change in the ammonia reading so I don't know what's going on. My 10 gallon tank has been testing fine and I...

It's been stuck at 4.0ppm not moving at all after water changes. I have been dosing with prime and even dosed some on Wednesday when I did my water change. I make sure to vacuum up any uneaten food and there's no decaying plants or fish either so I don't know why it won't go down at all