So update time. Things seemed to be on track, the extra bio balls didn't help that much, maybe they were to new and didn't have much bacteria on them ( found a few snails on them couple days ago, but thats another story). So things seemed to be going swimmingly, ammonia at 0ppm, Nitrites between about .25ppm. I have been doing 50% water changes every other day and 25% in between, thinking this may have slowed the cycle from completing I tried stopping water changes and dosing prime about every 36 hours. 3 days no water change yesterday 0ppm ammonia, .25ppm nitrite, 5ppm nitrates. Today I did my daily check of water and ammonia is 0ppm, nitrite jumped to 2.0ppm. Not sure what happened. I completed a 50% water change and dosed with Prime. I have not changed anything in tank. Only thing I did was last water change 3 or so days ago, I did a really good gravel vac to get rid of waste thinking that was preventing the cycle from completing. Maybe I cleaned it too well and got rid of some beneficial bacteria that was growing in the gravel?