Quote Originally Posted by carsona246 View Post
if you have a filter you should be fine, that should be able to house all the bb necessary.
I know people swear by Prime, but I don't think it detoxifies nitrite. From my knowledge it "detoxifies" ammonia by insuring all ammonia gets converted into ammonium, which is less toxic than ammonia, however 99% of that ammonia is already ammonium naturally in your tank. I've never used prime, so I could be wrong, but my method is always to do a waterchange whenever a toxin gets too high in a tank instead of relying on chemicals whose claims I don't know how to verify.
Definitely do a waterchange if your nitrites reach toxic levels, there's no point in speeding up your cycling if your inhabitants don't survive the process.
Definitely. Right now the nitrite is sitting at the edge of being unsafe so I will probably do a partial water change tomorrow. Take out about 10% and replace it with 10% and see if that detoxes the tank. If not I'll probably do a larger one.

Also with the substrate, I thought BB grows on pretty much every surface, and I do have a fair amount of decorations/silk plants!