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Hi

I've been cycling my tank for the last month or so, the nitrites have been dropping every few days and it's near the end of the cycle, but i noticed something strange after i had done a test today. I didn't clean out the tube right away and then about 5 minutes later the water began to change again, this time to a light brown colour.

I normaly clean the tubes out after a couple of minutes so i never left it long enough to notice this before, is it normal?
 
it takes about 5 minutes for your test results to finish. So it's normal in the sense that you're supposed to wait 5 minutes anyways
 
the instructions with my test kit says 2 minutes, and isn't it suppose to be purple in colour? hmm
 
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