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I started cycling a new 65 gallons tank 2 or 3 weeks ago. I'm doing it fishless so I first added some ammonia (4ppm) and waited a while... Nothing was happening for more than a week so I bought a bottle of BIO-Spira. Before I added the bottle, I had 4ppm ammonia, 0ppm nitrite and 0ppm nitrate. Less than 48h later, my ammonia was 0ppm, 0ppm nitrite, and 40 ppm nitrate. I added 2ppm ammonia to keep thing going... 24h later, I had 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, and about 80 ppm nitrate!!! :O I did a 20% water change (RO water of course, 0 nitrates...), and added 2ppm ammonia again. Now I'm at 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, and more than 80 ppm nitrate!!! Is it normal than my nitrates goes that high that fast?! I would do a bigger water change to lower nitrates but at that speed, i'll be doing 50% water change almost every 24h to keep up with that rise of nitrates!!!! And if I stop adding ammonia, won't my bacterias starve? What should I do?