water change - or - no water change

[ej1698]

Hey everyone,

I set up a nano tank [12 gallon] for my wife and put in 25 lbs of walt smith rock on march 31 . well, today I did a water check and it looks like this:
ammonia : off the charts
nitrite: 8.0
nitrate: 40
PH: 7.5

there are different opinion's on this and want a few more in regards to should I do a water change or just wait. Walt Smith say's to wait till 0 then do a 50% water change...?? what to do?

EJ

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[duec22]

I would wait untill the ammonia starts to go down untill doing another one, unless it starts to smell real bad.