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I just finished my 90% water change with the following results Ammonia 0.25ppm Nitrite 0 Nitrate 20ppm PH 7.6 I am now dosing up the ammonia to 2ppm so I will repost the results in 24 hours thanks a lot jlk for the help!!!

No I have never had a water report. I have no water conditioner so I would need to go buy some. What do you suggest? Would I be able to just to the water change now and add the conditioner later on before I get fish?

Should I clean any of the green and brown yuck off anything during the water change? I use well water with no chlorine so i'm guessing it does not need to be conditioned?

No I have not done a water change. I have checked my ph and it has been jumping anywhere from 8.2 down to 6.2 so maybe that is the problem?

I appreciate the response. When my ammonia was up at 8ppm it did drop to 0ppm and I had a nitrite spike. Then that to dropped to zero and I had a nitrate spike of 80pm and ever since then the ammonia will not drop past 1ppm. Maybe the water change would be a good idea. Would that screw anything...

I have recently ran into a wall here with my new freshwater setup. I have a 45 gallon tank with a 200 Penguin BIO-Wheel Power Filter and have been fishless cycling with pure ammonia for roughly 4 weeks now. Everything started out fine as I was dosing my tank with ammonia to 4ppm and it was...