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Question: Tank Cycle
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You're aiming for
pH 7
Ammonia - nil
Nitrite - nil
Nitrates should increase steadily and be diulted with partial water changes.
The question is whether your cycle is finished or just starting as you have no nitrates.
A pwc should ease the NO2 and pH issue.
Are you feeing it with an ammonia source? Or have live fish/axies in the tank?
You should reply with your tank size, bio load if any and plants, etc.
pH 7
Ammonia - nil
Nitrite - nil
Nitrates should increase steadily and be diulted with partial water changes.
The question is whether your cycle is finished or just starting as you have no nitrates.
A pwc should ease the NO2 and pH issue.
Are you feeing it with an ammonia source? Or have live fish/axies in the tank?
You should reply with your tank size, bio load if any and plants, etc.
Hey thanks for the reply,
I've only been feeding it with blood worms, should I continue this? I haven't put many in there at all. No live fish in the tank.
The size of my tank is 20g, and no plants, just sand.
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It sounds like you haven't provided enough ammonia source. How much are you putting in?
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What have your previous test results been like? It's hard to know where it's at in it's cycle based on one set of results 
Have you had any ammonia present in the last month and for how long if you have? How high did it get before you did anything to manually drop the levels?
If you haven't seen any ammonia then you will need to add more of the bloodworm or add it more often. Whatever you add for ammonia must be dead as it's the decaying that creates the ammonia I only mention it as you can get live BW in some places
Is 0.25ppm a new thing for the NO2 or has it always been that high? Did it rise slowly or all at once?
How often are you doing water changes and how much are you changing?
Have you had any ammonia present in the last month and for how long if you have? How high did it get before you did anything to manually drop the levels?
If you haven't seen any ammonia then you will need to add more of the bloodworm or add it more often. Whatever you add for ammonia must be dead as it's the decaying that creates the ammonia I only mention it as you can get live BW in some places
Is 0.25ppm a new thing for the NO2 or has it always been that high? Did it rise slowly or all at once?
How often are you doing water changes and how much are you changing?