I have a new 15 gallon saltwater tank and I had previously had issues with my nitrites peaking at around 10ppm during the cycle. I was recommended to get bottled bacteria and that seemed to work because within a few days my nitrites went down to .5ppm. Now the issue I'm having is my nitrites haven't moved from that spot since and it's been maybe one or two weeks. Maybe I'm just being impatient but I'm worried because it's at a complete standstill and not showing even slight signs of going down and if anything they're going up. I was recommended to put in some cleanup crew by both of my local fish stores to help finish the cycle so I put in a turbo snail and an emerald crab. After a few days I got my water tested at one of those stores and it showed my tank was finished cycling so I went ahead and got a cleaner shrimp and 3 dwarf blue leg hermit crabs. My tests still show I have nitrites but I figured my kit wasn't working right so I got my water tested at the other lfs and they were out of nitrite testing solution so I took it in to PetSmart and they tested with the strips and showed I have 1ppm of nitrite. I'm worried my inverts are gonna die if left in my tank so I can bring them in to one of those stores to be babysat but then I still have to figure out how to bring my nitrites down. My ammonia and nitrates are looking totally normal I just need to do a water change to bring those down. My salinity is a bit low (I think) and I'm bringing that up to around 1.025 and my ph is also on the low end around 7.8 and I'm not sure the best way to bring that up I'm considering buying some nitrite absorbing media but I wanted to try getting some advice before anything.