Even if ammonia is not present and hasn’t been dosed again after a 75% water change? I haven’t dosed ammonia in 8-9 weeks. I used dr Tim’s and nitrite is still 5++. It’s like the other guy said, if nitrite is irreverent, that’s great, pretty dang cool in fact, but, what’s the catch? Why can some have 0 nitrites, and others like myself be in the situation I’m in, even using the same tests. My head can’t wrap around it lol.
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I had a similar problem before, back when I started with freshwater I thought I could add 30 fish and 100 plants and it'd be fine.... It's not that easy, it's a process that takes weeks and months to establish when you're starting with new everything, you want it to take 6 weeks to fully cycle before adding livestock.... If you have seeded rocks you can cut that in half basically... You still want the process of completely breaking down food to happen first, then you can add 3 fish at once and they'll thrive because the water quality is good enough, until then learn the process and don't interrupt it, don't add anything at all unless it's food or bacteria to process the food. Just my 2 cents, be patient it'll all process in a few days and you'll be happy you waited forever because nothing will die due to ammonia spikes...
Did you do anything to try to build up your nitrifiers? Dosing ammonia, adding fish food, seafood, etc.? Did you see any ammonia to start with before it goes to 0, was there ever an increase in ammonia?
