Having a hard time cycling tank

[gabygaby90]

Hello all!
I have a month-old 11.3 AIO Tideline tank with some beginner corals and two clownfish. Parameters were a bit high on nitrate, nitrite and ammonia for the first three weeks, but pH had reached 8.2. Parameters spiked and are not going down. We had to leave town for the weekend and sitter (who I left specific instructions) was overfeeding tank so values are even worse after we got back Sunday. I did the usual 20% water change when we got back & I have done two 50% water changes for the past two days. Nothing is budging and now my trachy looks shrunken. Everything else is happy except clove polyps not fully open
I have the red sea testing kit

Values below:
pH 7.6
Ammonia 1.2
Nitrite 50+
Nitrate 50+
Alkalinity 14+
Salinity 1.025

 

[Azedenkae]

At this point might as well do a 100% water change. Not that your parameters got so bad that it is lethal yet to your clowns (probably), but prolonged exposure to nitrite is not good for clownfish. Since you already did 50% water changes, best to just do a 100% one and reduce the numbers as much as possible.

Presuming the readings are correct, of course.

 

[gabygaby90]

At this point might as well do a 100% water change. Not that your parameters got so bad that it is lethal yet to your clowns (probably), but prolonged exposure to nitrite is not good for clownfish. Since you already did 50% water changes, best to just do a 100% one and reduce the numbers as much as possible.

Presuming the readings are correct, of course.

I do have another 30 gal tank thats cycling as well (not even a week old) but with much better values so this is definitely an option, but is it safe if the tank is that young?

i forgot to mention that I had a green algae bloom in the middle of the third week of cycling and i put on a uv light. Currently shut that off as of the past week in case it had anything to do with the values

 

[Azedenkae]

I do have another 30 gal tank thats cycling as well (not even a week old) but with much better values so this is definitely an option, but is it safe if the tank is that young?

i forgot to mention that I had a green algae bloom in the middle of the third week of cycling and i put on a uv light. Currently shut that off as of the past week in case it had anything to do with the values

You've already done two 50% water changes, it really won't be much less safe compared to that to do a bigger water change.