spoonman said:My point was that if you use pure ammonia, you can make sure that the levels are right without doing water changes. Also, the bb needs nitrite to convert to nitrate. Water changes will also remove nitrite. Just my experience. There are alot of ways to skin a cat (so to speak).
Yea but the ammonia will convert into nitrites again anyways, he obviously isn't lacking nitrites. In fact I would do a water change to get them back into a readable range because they could be much higher than the test will show
Jlsardina said:Yep. Completely normal