I am on my 3rd fishless cycle. I usually take the slow natural way and never have had an issue with high nitrates. Being on a deadline from my wife and kids as I am upgrading a tank, I need the space the nano is in as that is where the Christmas tree is going to go. I added Instant Ocean Bio-Spira and ammonia to dose to 2PPM. I have to say it is working but maybe to good. It is converting ammonia to nitrites within a day. it is Converting nitrites to nitrates slowly (its been less than a week) but my Nitrates are off the charts.I only have the ability to do 10 gallon water changes at a time once cycle is complete. The tank is a 65 gallon. Will I be ok to do 10 gallon water changes everyday for a week to get the nitrates down? The current system the live stock is in has had undetectable amounts of nitrates the past 6 months. I do not want to kill the corals and fish from my current healthy tank. I will be moving the rock from current system with the dry in the cycling new system. I have about 3 weeks left to finish the process.
Fishless Cycle and Hight Nitrates
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I'd add another bottle of BIOSPIRA and a large piece of live rock. Also what is the size of aquarium and water parameters exactly?
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it is a JBJ 65 gallon AIO. ammonia reads 0 after 24 hrs of adding ammonia. Nitrites is light purple on API test and Nitrates are high with API. It is tough to tell exactly when matching the colors. The nitrites were deep purple 2 days ago but have moved to a light purple. this tells me they are dropping.
