King Fisher
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50% water change then add more ammonia
3water changes back to back @50%?I've done that 3 times now lol
Ok so the photo I just took of my tanks results. Please excuse the broken test tube I broke it right before taking the picture so I just used what little was left for the photo. Two days ago I did a 90% water change and didn't add ammonia thinking that maybe the nitrate needed time to eat the nitrite. This morning I check the levels my ammonia was 0 the nitrite was dark purple and I only had 10 nitrates which was a large decrease. So I thought I killed my bacteria. So I added ammonia and waited a few hours and just tested to show what my take is doing... what am I doing wrong? The nitrate seems to only eat the ammonia but not the nitrite? I'm so confused and upset
Doing a water change everyday to try to keep the nitrite down has become quite the hassle. I'll see what happens if I just add ammonia and wait thanks for all the replies! Hopefully I can buy some gold fish in two weeks lol
That's what I've been doing but I keep getting super dark purple for nitrite. I did a 90% water change yesterday and finally got a normal purple result today.
Long story short I dose my tank up to 4 PPM of ammonia nothing happened for 3 weeks I went on vacation came back to 0 ammonia and completely off the charts nitrite and nitrate now I'm trying to fix it everyday I do either a 50% or a 90% water change to bring the nitrites down which I've had zero luck with and I keep the ammonia between 1 and 2 because water changes brings it down to like .5 PPM because my tap water has some ammonia if you don't mind me asking how do you not cycle your tanks
Also to add to my terrible news I did a diluted test of nitrite and got dark purple so I have like 10ppm of nitrite even after 90% water change multiple times.... I'm at the point where I want to throw it at the wall