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Update: So my tank still has high ammonia, and about 5 ppm of nitrates, still no nitrites. I’ve been recommended to possibly just restart the tank, because something is obviously messing with the cycle. I really prefer not to do that just bc it took me so long to start getting nitrates, but if...

Will do. Thanks again :)

Thanks for your reply. So I just tested my tank yesterday randomly for nitrate and it tested positive about 5 ppm. So I’m a little confused because I never saw the whole nitrite spike and everything. I still have high ammonia so that’s not gone yet. Also, Nothing I do keeps my ph up I’ve added...

Update So I did the 20% water change and ammonia is around 2-3 ppm now. Ph is still 6.0 could be lower not sure, I test with the API freshwater kit and the lowest it goes is 6.0. I’m not sure if something in the tank could be causing the ph to drop?? I have fake glofish decorations as my tank...

Thanks so much for your response. My local petco recommended I dose tetra safe start in there and the whole bottle was the dose for 20 gallon so I added that bottle about a week ago. I did have a .25 test of nitrite come out before I dumped that in there and that did dissipate because now it...

Hi all! I am currently over one month into a fish less cycle on a 20 gallon tank. I am very very new to the fish hobby, and have been recently having issues with my cycle. Long story short I did have a previous 10 gallon glofish tank, but I had continuous problems with getting it to cycle...