Cycling Quastion

[mackay55]

my nitrite is 5ppm or higher its been around 20 days and im seeing no change.how long does it take before I start seeing it drop

 

[Miles_hot]

You could consider doing a 100%water change and re-dose to 2ppm of ammonia to see if that helps....

 

[Gvilleguy]

The nitrite phase will typically last up to twice as long as your ammonia phase. Is your ammonia still processing to zero regularly?

 

[Tizer]

What miles said, change the water, "reset it" then redose and see if you got any movement over the next 24 hours, the cycle may have stalled.

 

[the_lock_man]

I'd suggest that you test your pH, if that's gone low (kinda 6.5 or lower) then I would agree that your cycle has stalled. As advised by others, do a 100% water change, and if necessary add sufficient bicarbonate of soda to get the pH up to around 8.0-8.2. The bacteria seem to like quite an alkaline water chemistry.