Omg I just added ammonia today at 8:30 brand new everything on the tank and I added 11.5mL of ammonia and yes its day 2 now of the cycle. Turned every thing on yesterday
Well looking good!
But how is that possible? I didn't add preseeded media yet either
Did you add a BB in a bottle?
Have you tested your water source? Could the source of nitrites be from there? When I cycled my tank, I had everything brand new and it took two weeks for my nitrites to spike.
So I did retest my tap water and tank water again for trites. Here are the results. Left vial is tap water right is tank water
Tap is 0, tank looks like 0-.25 as before.
Has this tank every had anything else in it?
Nope its a brand new tank. Everything is brand new
Wow, that's weird! Are you dosing any fertilizer? Maybe that could do something?
Okay, finally this:
What decorations do you have? Rocks, driftwood? Could they leach chemicals back into the tank from any previous tank that they've been in?
Man that's crazy!