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Cycled!

Cool. I've been getting discouraged..but I've been working from home this week and I started obsessing

I'm don't recall the particulars being my first real tank other than my kids gold fish RIP

They appear fine. The one that was sulking has stopped...still I've heard that for some fish there aren't visible signs of nitrite related illness. They are somewhat protected from the nitrites because of the pH, the aquarium salt, and Prime conditioner.

Well, I use Prime water conditioner every other day with a 25% water change to ameliorate the high nitrites (and chlorine)

Update: Nitrites still high, ammonia at .25, nitrAtes present..when will the cycle end!?!

I'm happy that there are nitrates, which means that some conversion of nitrites is happening. Not sure why ammonia hasn't dropped all the way though. I know that the water changes reduce the amount of bacteria present but it should also reduce nitrites. I am being careful to not disturb the...

Ian new to this and tried starting a cichlids tank without awareness of the nitrogen cycle... Noob fail, I guess. Anyway here is a history of my 30 gallon tank: 1.5 months ago: filled my tank, tested water, and conditioned. Didn't do fish less cycling cause I didn't know better, although I did...