flitabout
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Impatience is the name of the game today! So it hasn't even been a week since I set this tank up and I have already had to do 3 water changes. I am using material from my other tank and in all reality it's going very well. But my nitrites spikes up everyday to unreadable levels and I have to do a water change. Today I did a 75-80% water change and it brought it down to 1ppm nitrite The tank is processing 4ppm of ammo in 12 hours to nitrite and some to nitrate obviously because yesterday my nitrates where at like 160+ But it's just annoying that I have to keep doing wc's because my nitrite level is so stinking high everyday. Is there anything I can do to speed this up short of adding bb in a bottle? Tank temp is 82, 2 HOBs doing 11 times an hour turn over. Water level is slightly lower than the filters so there is lots of splash. I added a crap load of wisteria that I took out of my other tank to help keep the nitrate levels down. I am just sick of doing water changes when I don't even have fish in the tank.