Nitrite high

[Hashir123]

Hi
I have nitrite reading of about 0.3 ppm. The tank is 3 weeks old, Maidenhead pro 1200. I have 6 fish in it ( powder brown tang, tiny regal tang and 4 chromis)
I thought the tank was cycled after one week because i used the bacteria and had live rocks so I added fish! But it seems that it was not the case.
since last week the nitrite reading is 0.3 ppm. I have added the detoxification liquid and bag and more bacteria microbacter7 . I added air stones to help with oxygen. I added bio filters from my old tank and kept doing 10-15% water changes daily. What should I do next? I appreciate any advice.

 

[Dan_P]

Hi
I have nitrite reading of about 0.3 ppm. The tank is 3 weeks old, Maidenhead pro 1200. I have 6 fish in it ( powder brown tang, tiny regal tang and 4 chromis)
I thought the tank was cycled after one week because i used the bacteria and had live rocks so I added fish! But it seems that it was not the case.
since last week the nitrite reading is 0.3 ppm. I have added the detoxification liquid and bag and more bacteria microbacter7 . I added air stones to help with oxygen. I added bio filters from my old tank and kept doing 10-15% water changes daily. What should I do next? I appreciate any advice.

0.3 ppm nitrite in saltwater is harmless. Stop adding all that stuff. The system is fine.

 

[Jekyl]

6 fish in a new tank the only tests I'd be concerned about are ammonia and nitrate. Although even ammonia is probably a non issue and nitrate won't matter until corals are introduced.

 

[Hashir123]

0.3 ppm nitrite in saltwater is harmless. Stop adding all that stuff. The system is fine.

Many thanks! I will then just keep the testing. Hopefully it will go down soon without further intervention from me.

 

[brandon429]

It does not matter if it goes down or they would have said the current levels are a concern

The older rules you read that said nitrite has to be zero to be safe in a reef display are simply wrong, we don't even need to test for it. Even if your test kit says it rose .01 next week, it's just testing artifacts and has no safety implication. Am relaying this because I have several threads where nitrite causes people to buy multiple rounds of bottle bac, thinking things are broken

Bottle bac sellers who profit from misinformation gave us the old rules

You can cease nitrite testing in your display reef permanently: it's true levels simply don't matter, it's neutral impact, see Randy's article on nitrite in the reef aquarium. The new rules in cycling will help you enjoy reefing much better: quarantine and fallow preps of the system to prevent fish disease is where all focus belongs, see any post in the fish disease forum for tanks under eight months old (the majority of posts in the disease forum are from new tanks)

Cycle testing isn't what protects your fish, its specific disease preps

Nitrite has no bearing on fish disease expression, it's a neutral impact parameter in saltwater which is why we recommend not testing for it

 

[Hashir123]

It does not matter if it goes down or they would have said the current levels are a concern

The older rules you read that said nitrite has to be zero to be safe in a reef display are simply wrong, we don't even need to test for it. Even if your test kit says it rose .01 next week, it's just testing artifacts and has no safety implication. Am relaying this because I have several threads where nitrite causes people to buy multiple rounds of bottle bac, thinking things are broken

Bottle bac sellers who profit from misinformation gave us the old rules

You can cease nitrite testing in your display reef permanently: it's true levels simply don't matter, it's neutral impact, see Randy's article on nitrite in the reef aquarium. The new rules in cycling will help you enjoy reefing much better: quarantine and fallow preps of the system to prevent fish disease is where all focus belongs, see any post in the fish disease forum for tanks under eight months old (the majority of posts in the disease forum are from new tanks)

Cycle testing isn't what protects your fish, its specific disease preps

Nitrite has no bearing on fish disease expression, it's a neutral impact parameter in saltwater which is why we recommend not testing for it

Many thanks. I will read Randy's article on nitrite with great interest.