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ph 6.5
amonia 1
nitrite 0.25
nitrate 40
what should they be

Firstly, I think you are posting in the wrong part of the forum.

For a fully cycled system, the ammonia and nitrite reading should be zero or sometime ammonia could be just a tinge close to 0.25... pH naturally gets lower as the system cycles and matures and soon you cannot read it anymore as the test kit reads up to 6.0, but it might be below 6.0

At ammonia of 1, depending on how old your system is, if it is under 2 months, you might be coming up to a nitrite spike shortly, but if your system is already about 2-3 months, then you might be overstocking or not filtering the water sufficiently.

Nitrate should be anything below 100ppm...