ijaco
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
So on Sunday I posted wondering if my cycle was complete yet. My ammonia had been going from 5ppm to 0ppm in 24 hours, and my nitrites were down to between 0 and .25. My nitrates, however, had been stuck at around 10ppm for the whole time I was trying to fishless cycle and never really had a spike. Anyways, someone told me I should be good to go after a water change, so I did a 50% WC and went out to get some fish. I stocked about 40%, (it's a 60 gallon), but ever since I added the fish there has been a huge nitrite spike. On Monday it was 3-4 ppm and ever since then it has been off the scale! Ammonia has been steady at 0 or sometimes .25 ppm, and nitrates were around 20 ppm until tonight, they jumped up to 100 ppm. I have been doing 50% water changes daily, and have already done 2 today. I also added a lot of extra prime to detoxify the nitrites. What should I do? More water changes?