I’ve recently brought a saltwater tank and after cycling it added 3 fish. After a week of having the fish in the tank I’ve had a nitrite spike, due to my own fault of feeding them too much the first few days whilst getting used to it all.
A visit to my LFS (10 days into spike with nitrite reading 1.0 in a 20 gal tank) they’ve informed me I have to shake the beneficial bacteria I have been adding as it all settles at the bottom of the bottle.
I did today and the colour of it was orange but the last week I’ve been adding clear fluid obviously from the top of the bottle.
In the last week I have done 2 30% water changes and siphoned the sand at the bottom of the tank a few times as recommended by LFS so have taken a lot of bacteria out but haven’t been putting much in due to not shaking.
Would it be okay to add more bacteria to catch up and lower the nitrites or is there such thing as too much good bacteria?
A visit to my LFS (10 days into spike with nitrite reading 1.0 in a 20 gal tank) they’ve informed me I have to shake the beneficial bacteria I have been adding as it all settles at the bottom of the bottle.
I did today and the colour of it was orange but the last week I’ve been adding clear fluid obviously from the top of the bottle.
In the last week I have done 2 30% water changes and siphoned the sand at the bottom of the tank a few times as recommended by LFS so have taken a lot of bacteria out but haven’t been putting much in due to not shaking.
Would it be okay to add more bacteria to catch up and lower the nitrites or is there such thing as too much good bacteria?