Help with cycling

[SarahO]

Hi. I really need some help. I crashed my cycle two weeks ago and I’ve been trying to get it back on track. Everything is going up, but not leveling off or coming down. What can I do? My betta is in a small holding bowl until I can fix this. 

It’s a ten gallon fresh water aquarium, with a filter and heater. Plants are silk, except for moss balls and frogbit. I’ve been adding tetra safestart and seachem prime. Ammonia is at 0.25 ppm.  Nitrite is at 1.0 ppm. Nitrate is around 40-80 ppm. 

I’m really attached to my fish, and I’ll try anything to get him back in his tank. 

[FrozenFins]

your tank is cycled when you have ammonia at 0, nitrite at 0 and nitrate at 20-40ppm. So I would do a waterchange to get rid of some of the nitrites and ammonia, test your water and your betta fish should be good to go in his home. 

[FrozenFins]

If this ever happen again, I would use Fritz Turbo Start, this apperiantly makes it safe for fish the second you put it in. do I beleive it yes and no. It does not cycle your aquarium right away but it lets you add a small amount of fish to keep the bacteria that was in the bottle alive and within a few days there will be nitrates in your tank aka a cycled aquarium.