Keep us updated on the nitrite dosing! Sometimes the best inventions are just luck.
Follow up for the nitrite dosing: I never found any issues with fish or corals but I lost my peppermint shrimp shortly after posting before. Wasn't too distraught because the shrimp was turning into a nightmare by pulling on zoa skirts and also SPS polyps :mad2: Regaurdless, I halted the dosing for the time being to be on the safe side. My snails also died so they must be pretty sensitive also.
I've now set up a new tank and everything is doing great so I thought that I would try dosing nitrite again. Seen an almost immediate result that I didn't notice in the old tank, masses of amphipods came out of the rocks. Didn't realize for a while but they were all dying and my skunk cleaner almost died also. Couple emergency water changes saved him but hundreds of amphipods died. Don't think that I'll do that again. Bought some tech grade sodium nitrate for hydroponics this time and it's too early to give any feedback on how it's going.
Not sure why I didn't notice the same in the old tank, maybe they were all eaten, it was only 8 gallons. I'm still curious what the effects are with other critters in the tank like bristle worms but that will have to be done in a beaker or the 1/2 gallon tank that I have. I've only seen one bristle worm in my tank and it's in the sump so it's safe from experimentation. It appears that my hermit crabs were lethargic for a few days but none died.