CezzaXV
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Heya,
I made you some graphs as I thought they might help you see more sense in the whole situation easier than a bunch of numbers, so I present to you your cycles!
Tank 2 looks like it's having mahoosive nitrite spikes, but that's the way it looks in the chart as it hasn't had a massive reading for nitrite and so it's actually the same.
As the chart doesn't include readings for redosing ammonia, you're almost there on that. If you take readings every 12 hours, the line should be flat on 0, which even on tank 3 it's getting there so no need to worry about that.
Your nitrites are spiking right now on tanks 1 and 2. You can see how they keep going right up and then dropping down to 0 by the next reading again (which means it's doing it in 24 hours.. Very soon you should stop getting such high readings on nitrite and then you'll get 0 and you'll be ready for your fish.
Tank 3 isn't quite there yet, as you can see the nitrite is staying consistently high and it's not dropping at all. I'd imagine that the nitrites on tank 3 are still rising but you're using a test kit to measure that that doesn't go up high enough to measure it.
You can see how you're doing better than my tank right now by comparing it to my graph.
That most recent drop in nitrite was a water change so doesn't really count. If you take that out, the nitrites have been consistently high and not dropping at all.
I guess that's just a long winded way of saying your nitrites look like they're clearing in 24 hours on tanks 1 and 2 so you're almost there.
I made you some graphs as I thought they might help you see more sense in the whole situation easier than a bunch of numbers, so I present to you your cycles!
Tank 2 looks like it's having mahoosive nitrite spikes, but that's the way it looks in the chart as it hasn't had a massive reading for nitrite and so it's actually the same.
As the chart doesn't include readings for redosing ammonia, you're almost there on that. If you take readings every 12 hours, the line should be flat on 0, which even on tank 3 it's getting there so no need to worry about that.
Your nitrites are spiking right now on tanks 1 and 2. You can see how they keep going right up and then dropping down to 0 by the next reading again (which means it's doing it in 24 hours.. Very soon you should stop getting such high readings on nitrite and then you'll get 0 and you'll be ready for your fish.
Tank 3 isn't quite there yet, as you can see the nitrite is staying consistently high and it's not dropping at all. I'd imagine that the nitrites on tank 3 are still rising but you're using a test kit to measure that that doesn't go up high enough to measure it.
You can see how you're doing better than my tank right now by comparing it to my graph.
That most recent drop in nitrite was a water change so doesn't really count. If you take that out, the nitrites have been consistently high and not dropping at all.
I guess that's just a long winded way of saying your nitrites look like they're clearing in 24 hours on tanks 1 and 2 so you're almost there.
I can't believe you did all that for me
thank u soooo much 
i'm even jelous of the fishes DD has in the bath!!!
