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I'd try a water change and wait some more... 4 ppm is an arbitrary number, not a necessity. If you cut it down to 2 ppm, you'll still cycle the tank, you just won't be able to stock a whole tank's worth of fish all at once (which I would not recommend anyway, ever, as new tanks can be somewhat unstable).