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[Koliis]

I have already established that I messed up my cycle, because I didn't know what it was. I have too many fish to be cycling right now-I am attached to my fish. My fish are showing no signs of stress, the only one stressing is me. I do 2 50% water changes back to back, and still have a reading of 2.0, before I do the water change it's at 8.0. I checked my city water, and it does not have any ammonia in it. HELP!? What can I do, besides adding chemicals?

 

[lolobunnz]

Just going off of that information alone you need to rehome fish (overstocking?) and do a very large water change to get things back under control. Live plants can help, too. I have a cycling tank as well it is a 29 gallon with 7 platy and my ammo never got over 1.0 and that was just one day....but i am assuming also that you are using a liquid test kit.

Or aquire another tank and buy mature media to stick in the filter

 

[garyspence84]

You could always ask your local fish shop to sell you some mature filter media for your filter, change it over and do a massive water change (like 75/80% change) and keep an eye on your water stats from there

 

[toshapetriji]

All you can do is massice water changes as often as is needed in order to get the ammonia reading down

 

[fishprotector]

Where are you based? Many members on here would probably give you some mature media.