flitabout
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Yes I am a dumb-dumb! I added too many fish all at once. I did it. When I hit my lights a few days ago (feeling like a year now) I noticed my water looked cloudy. I remembered seeing a post about cloudy water coming from an ammonia spike so I decided to do some testing. My nitrites were 2ppm. I had been so sick and dealing with sick kids that I decided to dump prime in and wait till I had enough energy to get to the store to get water. I hiked 25g of water in and did a 50% water change (my tap water sucks). At that point I dosed like rivercats told me to with a small amount of salt and a heavy dose of prime and that got it down to 1 ppm. Next day I had a good tap test and I did another run to the store and did a 50% water change with 50/50 tap and RO. Now my tests are still coming up with ammo .25ppm and nitrite .5ppm so it is really dropping. But I am getting really sick running to the grocery store every morning when I get the kids to school to buy huge amounts of RO water. I got so sick of it I went and did another 25g this morning and it's mixed with a bit of tap and did a 75% change. Just maybe I can get a day off from buying water.
How long is this going to last? I will keep doing it if I have to but I just really, really want a break! Mini cycles suck!
How long is this going to last? I will keep doing it if I have to but I just really, really want a break! Mini cycles suck!