Doing a cycle with homemade ammonium chloride. Works well, dosed ammonia up to 1.5 took around 4 days to get to 0.
But my nitrites is high, around 4 which is to be expected but I think it’s been a long time now, a couple of weeks. Nitrates is 50,
I did a 50% waterchange yesterday, nitrates went from 90 ish to 50, nitrites stayed the same at 4.
Should I just wait it out and hope the nitrites will drop, or do another big waterchange?
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@Erabe
22h
Nitrite doesn't matter too much in a reef aquarium, there's some reaction with the salt water that makes it basically harmless to livestock and corals at much higher levels than yours. I would wait for nitrates to get down to the 10s however and then phosphate at or below 0.1, which is a good for coral. Expect these numbers to fluctuate wildly when you hit the uglies though.
@Ryobs
19h
I don't think you should worry too much about nitrites; just stick to nitrates and phosphates. And don't forget to add bacteria regularly, that might solve your problem.
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I’d wait, nitrite always drags lol
Thx