Just did another water change and got ammonia to .25ppm and nitrite is at 1.0ppm should I keep doing multiple a day until everything is in order?
I've been following along and Aiken has been giving you some great advise so I just want to add this:
What you need to remember is that the "cycle" (a.k.a establishing a biological filter bed) is a process. It doesn't happen over night. Next is that the biological filter bed is a living " breathing" thing that grows and shrinks all based on the amount of ammonia present in the water. If there is low ammonia, there will be a small biological filter bed. If the ammonia is high, the bed will be a larger bed. The problem with doing high ammonia in the presence of fish is that the ammonia damages the fish and if they do not die during the cycling process, the chances are that the fish will be permanently damaged and could die at any time "mysteriously". Sadly, people often think that just because the fish makes it through the cycling process that the fish are home free. That's just not always the case. Back in the day when " fish in cycles" were the only way we did tanks, it was always low fish counts of only strong fish and routine water changes at least once but usually twice a week for at least a month. When the time came to add more fish, it was always 1 or 2 to not stress the filter bed. ( Thankfully the microbes in the biological filter bed reproduce quickly so rarely would there be the spikes because not a lot of ammonia producers were being added. ) Everything had to be done gradually.
Now I told you all that so that I could tell you this
: Even if you used a whole bottle of Fritzyme or Micro Bacter or others, only enough of the microbes to consume the amount of ammonia present at that time will survive. The rest will die off from starvation. So just because you added a whole bottle does not mean you will have a large biological bed. With that being said, the only " bacteria in a bottle" product I've had success with has been the Fritzyme line. I started using it when it first hit the market with great success. But here's the catch, you have to have the right water parameters ( Ph, Temperature, Hardness) for any of these products to really be effective. This is the guide for Fritzyme #7.
https://fritzaquatics.com/resources/articles/fritzzyme-user-guide-fw If you have these water and temperature parameters, I'd give the fritz#7 or Turbo700 a shot. If you do not have these parameters, I wouldn't waste your money. The microbes that are forming naturally are ones that have/ are adapted/ adapting to your water parameters. They may be doing it more slowly than you'd like but if you are producing nitrates, they ARE working.
It all just takes time and water changes.
Hope this helps.