So I started up my 450 4 months ago now. Months prior to setting up the tank I loaded the sump of my 180 with bio media to get it established for the new tank. When I started up the 450 I used 6 silver dollars to cycle it, seachem stability, and put all the pre-established media into the simp. 2 months went by and the tank never cycled since the media was already established so I slowly started adding more of my stock into the tank over the next month or so. When I added more fish the nitrite went up to .25ppm and since has never gone down. Ammonia had always been 0. PH I keep at 7. I noticed about a month ago that my KH was really low. It was at 0. Since I've been doing a 40% water change once a week and using reef builder as my buffer to raise the KH and it's now at 50 ppm. I've also been dosing with stability to try and keep the bio filter strong. I was hoping that since the KH was going up the biofilter would be working better and breaking down the nitrite to 0. The nitrite is still sitting at .25 and I can't get rid of it.... Any thoughts?? Anyone have any other suggestions to break down the nitrite?? Someone told me to try using plants as they break down nitrogen?? Ideas??
Also.. fish are all perfectly healthy in the tank. I just don't want to add the rest of my stock the the little bit of nitrite I have still.
Also.. fish are all perfectly healthy in the tank. I just don't want to add the rest of my stock the the little bit of nitrite I have still.
