shizzy2342
Aquarium Advice Newbie
Hello, I am redoing a 70 gallon tank and decided to do a fishless cycle as the first time I did this tank was a mess with a fish-in cycle. This is my first fishless cycle, I did the dr. tim's ammonia dose method. I was about 23 days in when I finally started seeing nitrites and the ammonia I was putting in was being processed in a day (showing 0ppm the next day). I continued dosing the ammonia every day adding about 1ppm and seeing it hit 0 the next day. The nitrites spiked to 5 during this time and for about 2-3 weeks started to drop to about 0.5ppm. I decided to stop dosing the ammonia about 3 days ago and now my nitrites are back up between the 2 and 5ppm on the API test kit. Is this normal? I am on day 53 and its getting incredibly frustrating lol Ive been dosing with bacteria since the start too, adding small doses every couple days or so.