NITRITE

[puff(er) daddy]

MY TANK HAS BEEN CYCLING FOR THREE MONTHS NOW. I'VE ADDED A GROUPER AND A PUFFER ABOUT A MONTH AGO. ON THE FLOOR IT'S CRUSHED CORAL, DRIFTWOOD AND TWO CORAL REEFS FOR DECORATION. I'VE TEST THE WATER TWICE EVERYTHING WAS COOL EXCEPT THE NITRITE. I'VE SINCE DID A 20% WATER CHANGE. I ALSO ADDED ANOTHER 10LB BAG OF CRUSHED CORAL AND ADDED CYCLE. THE NITRITE PPM IS STILL THROUGH THE ROOF. IT'S BEEN A WEEK SINCE THAT WHAT SHOULD I DO?

 

[blueberryboomer]

We had this problem, no matter what we did we could not get the nitrites down, finally we took everything out of the tank includding the crush coral and changed to live sand. That fixed our problem. It is said that cc holds the nitrites. Hope this helps some..Later Lisa