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So my tank has been cycling for about 3 weeks now. I started with caribsea liferock and live sand. I started the cycle with Dr. Tim's one and only and ammonia. Last Friday both ammonia and nitrite were at 0 or close to it, so I added more ammonia expecting it to reduce to zero on Saturday. However, that wasn't the case, on Saturday there was still 2ppm of ammonia which is how much I added. Sunday and Monday (yesterday), ammonia levels were 1.2 and .4ppm, so looks like I have a decent amount of bacteria consuming ammonia, however, my nitrite levels were 1 on Sunday and greatly increased to 5 or more yesterday. I purchased a bottle of fritz turbostart to try and help my cycle, so my question is would it be safe to add it today? I predict ammonia would be even lower, however, no clue if nitrite will increase or decrease. I am not going to add more ammonia until nitrites are almost 0, so will the bacteria from turbostart die without a food source?