Nitrite Never Shows?

[CTGoldfish]

I am currently cycling my tank and my results are this after about a month and a half
Ammonia:0.25 (I change the water once a week because its a fish in cycle)
Nitrite:Nothing has ever appeared
Nitrate:20 ppm (according to API Chart) but its a little darker so I'd say about 30 ppm
I have no idea why I never see nitrites its like they just turn into nitrates immediately.
I think the reason my ammonia is high this far in the cycle is because yesterday I gave my snails a whole algae wafer and I could see ALOT of snail poop now

 

[waterdrop]

Yes, its not uncommon to hardly ever get to see any blips of nitrite from your nitrite tests during a fish-in cycle where you are faithfully changing water. Your N-Bac colony that processes the nitrites into nitrates may have just developed slowly and evenly over the weeks and is doing its job pretty well.

It may be that you need to be doing your water changes a little more frequently or making them a little larger but that's more for you to say. Getting 0.25ppm ammonia should be the very highest you hit after perhaps 24 hours after the previous water change. When you measure 20 or 30 minutes after a big water change, the ammonia test should show zero ppm or some trace much less than 0.25ppm, unless there is ammonia in your tap water coming in. Otherwise the water change percentage is probably too small.

~~waterdrop~~

 

[CTGoldfish]

I haven't changed the water yet this week (I'm changing it today)
I do a 60-80% water change

 

[waterdrop]

See what your ammonia reading is about a half hour after this week's change. WD