tiffanyleanne
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- Aug 11, 2022
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Hi everyone! This is my first time posting here! I need help with my aquarium. I have a 29 gallon tank and I'm doing a fishless cycle. It's been exactly one month of me running the cycle. I have been sprinkling in fish food everyday. My ammonia already spiked and dropped to zero. My nitrites spiked way too high last week (I think I added too much fish food, now I'm only adding every other day), I did a 30% water change. My nitrites have now gone down to 0. I'm having trouble with my nitrates though. So far the past 2 weeks I haven't seen it rise above 5ppm, and now the past 2 days it looks like it's less than 5ppm now. I'm using the API test kit. My pH has always been around 8.2 and temp is at 83. Is this normal? Or should I be doing something differently? I thought once the nitrites dropped nitrates would go up...I also wonder if the nitrites being too high did something to my cycle. Let me know what you think!