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Did a 50% water change and things are looking good now. Nitrites are 2-5 ppm and nitrates are 25 ppm. I do have one more question. According to the cycling instructions, after the third ammonia dose, instructions state to wait until ammonia is under 0.25 and nitrites are under 1.0. What should...

So after the nitrites showed up 8 days ago, they climbed pretty rapidly and have been 5.0 ppm plus for the last week (API test kit only goes to 5.0). The nitrate level is now sky high, and has been for a few days (over 160 ppm). The ammonia went to zero so i provided a snack dose as per the...

Thank you again for the help. Nitrites finally showed up last night after 23 days. 0.25 ppm, but I expect things to progress well now. I'll come back if anything goes askew, but the cycling directions provided here seem pretty solid.

Thanks for the response. I did test my tap water tonight and had the following readings: pH 7.6, ammonia 0, nitrites 0. I am using an API Freshwater Master Test Kit, with chemicals showing expiration of 09/2022. Do you know if the Seachem Stability should introduce nitrites?

I have been following the "Cycling Your Fresh Water Tank" as posted on this site. After 3 weeks, I still have no sign of nitrites and my ammonia level is still at 4 ppm. My pH is 8.0, KH is 4.5 dKH, temperature is 79. The only thing I suspect is that because we have a whole house water filter...