People would rant for a few days and then stop caring if they picked Ryan or Romney . Things would be worse if they ' re picked a Democrat . Some Trumpsters would send death threats and maybe forcibly occupy another federal building . But it would mostly be internet rage and angry people in Walmart yelling at each other . <| sep |> It ' s odd to think of it this way , but you ' re cleaning too much imo . Basically all you want to do is clean your sponges in tank water and leave the rest . If your impeller has gunk on it , take it out and clean it in tank water but you should make it a habit to not make too many changes too quickly . Hard to tell you how much to change and how often . It depends on so many things like sticking levels , feeding amount , etc . I ' d start out with a 20 % 30 % water change and test your levels , you want 0 for everything to give you a base line on where things are at . A day later , test the levels and see how much it rises , and do water changes accordingly . You ' re cycled when you have no nitrites or ammonia for a couple of days in a row . Think of the bacteria is little hungry workers . Say that there 10 ammonia eaters and 10 nitrite eaters . You give 12 units of ammonia so they eat 10 , and there ' s still some left over , the ammonia eaters create 15 units of nitrite for the nitrite eaters , they eat 10 of them so there ' s still some left over . This is why you ' ll see a spike in nitrite , and a little ammonia , you have too much supply for how many workers you have . They ' ll multiply and eventually you ' ll have enough workers to process everything for your tank . Hope this makes sense , everything will fix itself in time , but for now you ' ve got to try to keep your fish alive