Nitrite won’t go away

[Bettaguy08]

I recently (2 days ago) made this jar aquarium because I kept seeing other people make jar aquariums and they looked pretty cool, and they never had filters or any of that because there plants would do the job of keeping all the nitrite and ammonia down, so I made my own and I made sure to put a lot of plants in the jar so I wouldn’t have to worry about the water quality… but I still have to worry about the water quality because my nitrites are sky high even known yesterday they were at 0. The plants in the tank are Java fern, Anubias, rotala indica and camboba. Plus the 4 shrimp I bought, how do I get rid of these nitrites?

 

[Guyb93]

Get a bigger jar ? Even a jar has to cycle the plants are doing the best they can and keeping ammonia away but with life pooing in there there has to be some sort of effect in the nitrogen cycle, how big is the jar 0.5 gallon ?

 

[Bettaguy08]

Get a bigger jar ? Even a jar has to cycle the plants are doing the best they can and keeping ammonia away but with life pooing in there there has to be some sort of effect in the nitrogen cycle, how big is the jar 0.5 gallon ?

I’m not sure how many gallons it is but this is the measurements of it

 

[Bettaguy08]

Get a bigger jar ? Even a jar has to cycle the plants are doing the best they can and keeping ammonia away but with life pooing in there there has to be some sort of effect in the nitrogen cycle, how big is the jar 0.5 gallon ?

Your right I think the presence of the shrimp are going to probably disturb the nitrogen cycle, I’m gonna move them to a different temporary tank

 

[Guyb93]

Your right I think the presence of the shrimp are going to probably disturb the nitrogen cycle, I’m gonna move them to a different temporary tank

Honestly even replacing the sand with established sand from a fish tank might be enough to help and being so small water changes are easy maybe see what happens ? I don’t know lol

 

[Bettaguy08]

Honestly even replacing the sand with established sand from a fish tank might be enough to help and being so small water changes are easy maybe see what happens ? I don’t know lol

Would something like this help start the cycling process? What do you think? FritzZyme Turbo Start 700 Freshwater https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084H39HTG/?tag=ff0d01-20

 

[Lynnzer]

I'm hopeless on plant names but I think some of those in your jar are pretty slow growing, especially the anubias. (if I have the name right).
You really need plants with a good oxygenation rate as obviously they are growing quickly and using the waste as the nutition source.

 

[Bettaguy08]

Edit: we’ll turns out putting the shrimp in a established aquarium was not a good idea, for some reason the day after I added them in the nitrites spiked to 10.0 and killed a shrimp as well as my betta that I’ve had since November, I don’t know why the nitrites spiked if it was a cycled tank

 

[Lynnzer]

Seems like the cycle has been killed. At least, to put it better, it seems that the tank has lost the beneficial bacteria needed to process the ammonia/nitrite/nitrates.
You should start all over on a fishless cycle.