ronrca

Right on! Patience is the key! Now you have to wait for the nitrite to come down! Nitrites take longer than ammonia actually because of the bacteria reproduction rate of only 24-36 hours unlike ammonia bacteria which is a couple hours. Dont worry!! It will get much more frustrating waiting for the nitrites to come down. A word of advice and experience, there is such a thing as "too" much ammonia and nitrites! It happened to my 90G. The nitrites would not come down. Nitrates were off the scale for a long time already but still nitrites did not come down. So after 3 weeks, I did a water change and the next day nitrites came down into readable numbers and then proceed down to 0 where it has now stayed. Just a thing to remember. Good luck.