Today I'm at
Ammo .25
Trites 1
Trates 20
I'm getting frustrated because my ammonia never goes below .25 and my nitrates stay at 1 but my nitrates continue to slowly go up. I have been cycling my tank for 2 weeks with a TON of seeded material. I am using the test strips. I tested my cycled 20 gallon and it kinda shows the same thing but I did add fish last week when I did a water change. I can't get the API master for a few more weeks but I wonder if I should continue doing this assuming my strips are accurate or do a water change and put a few fish in assuming the strips are false positives. I don't know! Weird because before I went to work last night my levels were exactly the same as this morning, just 12 hours after dosing. How can it be the same still 12 hours later??!!
#frustrated