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Thanks - not surprisingly, my nitrite levels have fallen significantly today, and my nitrite fell way more than I expected - sitting at about 5ppm according the salifert test. I don't necessarily trust it but I was interested.
It's interesting that they don't mention this at all in their collateral. I wonder how many people not as fortunate as I to have this great forum have been tricked by this and have done all sorts of things to their tank to try to deal with a non-existent problem.
Well, that's likely the nitrite interference. Salifert has indicated that a little nitrite reads as a lot of nitrate, and with some kits, it can be 100x, so 0.25 ppm nitrite would read as 25 ppm nitrate.