HAnnAH10gal
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So I recently had a ten gal tank appear to be cycled. I was adding fish food ammonia and the pare enters read 0 eventually for nitrites. The tank had been cycling over a month. I switched everything over to a new 20 gal tank, same water, rocks, filter etc. I didn't clean anything so the bacteria should have remained. The water tested fine again after doing all this and I bought two otocinculus and gave them some algae discs, broccoli and cucumber and removed this food after two days. I tested water again just to be curious and the nitrites read sky high!! Like fish death over 10.0 high!!! I don't see how this is possible and even more so how my fish are still alive! I am only using tetra strips for testing. I know everyone says they aren't accurate but they have to give me an idea of what's going on I would think.......so now I took 5 gals of water out and replaced it with new treated water added Ammomia reducer.......idk what else to do and how to deal with this. I can't add fish like I had planned because my tank doesn't want to stay cycled.
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