Well, I feel stupid. It turns out that my tap water is just about the same measurements that I posted in my initial thread. That means of course that I wasnt making any progress at all. After I dumped a huge amount of "dirty" water from my 125 gal into the pond, in only 10 short days, I was at 0 ammonia, 0 Nitrites, and 10 Nitrates. Problem solved. Thanks for all the help...